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By John Okokobioko
Weeks After Solomon Arase’s Demise Police Service Commission (PSC) has lost another of its former chairmen, DIG Parry Osayande (Rtd), to the cold hand of death.
Former police chief dies few hours before his 89th birthday.
Osayande died in the early hours of Sunday, September 28, 2025 in Benin, Edo State, barely one month after Solomon Arase’s passage, sparking call for prayers for the Commission by the current Chairman, DIG Hashimu Argungu (Rtd).
Argungu, in a statement issued by Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the PSC, called on Nigerians “to remember the Commission in their prayers in this trying period of losing two of its former Chairmen within a month.”
The Commission’s Chairman, however, described DIG Osayande death as a great loss to the Commission.
Ani said in the statement that the Commission “received with shock the news of the death of its former Chairman DIG Parry Osayande.”
He described the late Osayande as an erudite and consummate Police officer, who had paid his dues as an exemplary and visionary chairman of the Commission.
Osayande was appointed in April, 2008 by President Goodluck Jonathan as a successor to Chief Simon Okeke, the pioneer Chairman of the Commission.
According to the Commission’s spokesman, “His tenure marked rapid growth of the Commission, including the Presidential approval for a corporate headquarters for the Commission, now standing in the Jabi District of Abuja.
”DIG Parry Osayande was fearless, focused, and had a commanding presence, which gave the Commission, a lot of mileage during its formative period,” Ani stated.
