The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, Waheed Ayilara, is dead.
Ayilara, who took over the State Command of Nigeria Police Force in February, died while undergoing surgery at a popular hospital in Lagos State.
He was said to have died hours after attending a retirement and birthday ceremony of some senior police officers held in Lagos on Wednesday.
It was gathered that Ayilara died in the early hours of Thursday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, where doctors are on strike.
The deceased was said to have had prostate cancer surgery on Wednesday before he died hours later.
Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, was unavailable for comment at the time of filing this report.
Late last year, Ayilara had a stint as acting Commissioner of Police in Lagos.
The former Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department,0 took over from AIG Idowu Owohunwa.
It was after acting as head of Lagos Police Command that he was deployed to Akwa Ibom.
