Mr Timothy Obagbemiga Awoyemi, BA (Hon) Criminology and Criminal Justice (MD/CEO)

Timothy is the CEO of Majestic Telecommunication and Protective Security Services. A credible, conscientious and hardworking gentleman, with proven integrity in both private and public sector, both home and in a high profile and most sensitive office in the United Kingdom. My experience in policing and Security industry which is spanned over 21yrs has the greater part of 18yrs spent protecting Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth II, the Queen of England and the Royal Household. Trained by the Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard London,

Tim, as he is called in the palace was one of the 10 black people privileged to work in a high profile and secured environment of both Buckingham and Kensington Palace.
Trained in the act of security within and outside the police service, he served in various capacities, policing and securing both private and public events like the popular Defence Exhibition, Protest, Riots, Royal Party Events, High Commissioner and Celebrity Events, the Boat Show, the Dive Show and the concluded Olympics 2012 in London. A lover of adventure with special ‘soft spot’ for Nigeria his fatherland.

Tim as he is popularly known in 2004 with a group of 12 members led by Steve Dunstone from UK (mostly police officers from England) did an expedition to visit Nigeria in commemoration of 200 years anniversary of British born brothers -Richard and John Lander (the Lander brothers who founded the confluence of River Niger after Mungo Park). This was an expedition that gained international recognition and the way he was able to render a high profile security trouble or disturbance free security management, it was accorded and recorded as an excellent success despite experiencing the usual challenges ranging from attack by men of the underworld to careless accidents on the road between Jebba and New Bussa.

These incidences were viewed critically with an ambition of making a landmark changes concerning security in Nigeria. A dream, he wish to fulfilled!. In 2007, in his quest for more knowledge and professionalism, he enrolled for a full time degree programme in the School of Law of the University of East London (UEL) London to read Criminology and Criminal Justice while still in full time job as a Police Special Constable and a Police Security Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service. His love for challenges saw him through this tasking, self denying and rigorous phase of life that opened his eyes to international security and policing which made him graduate in flying colours.

Tim dissertation “Police Accountability and Corruption – A comparison of the Policing Structures in the UK and Nigeria” (2010), an academic paper that looked into the policing and security structures as it relates to accountability and corruption in UK and Nigeria showed commitment to his fatherland Nigeria. A fierce Campaigner of the Return of unlawfully taken artifacts by exploiters, he was involved in a diplomatic campaign between the UK and Nigeria for the repatriation of Benin Bronzes that have been with the British particularly the looted artefact in the British Museum possession for more than a century.

The Benin Bronzes numbered over 2000 were looted (according to new evidence in a recorded journal handed to us by one of the descendant of the then officers who evaded Benin in 1897) by officers who carried out a punitive operation mounted by the British Protectorate in Nigeria in 1897. On June 20, 2014 my effort yielded a result with one of the descendant of the officers on the punitive mission donating 2 bronzes in their possession but more importantly donating a diary written by the then officer on the 1897 mission. This diary has vital information in changing both public and historical perspective surrounding the British loot of these Bronzes in 1897.

This was done in a historical and colourful ceremony attended by indigenes home and abroad, important dignitaries including kings, state Governors and Federal government emissaries.
Timothy otherwise known in Nigeria as Gbenga has attended many in service training such as Radio and Telephony Communication Training Skills (2000), Security Operations and effective site Patrol Operation (2000), First Aid at Work and Manual Handling (2003), Security Operation and Management Training (2003), Fire and Health Safety Procedures and Marshalling (2003), Secured Environment Alarms and Control Monitoring (2004-2006), CCTV and Monitor Operations and Monitoring (2004-2007), Civil Officer Defence and Safety (2005), Police Officer Safety Training(2009), Officers Fire Arms Training (2007), Equality and Diversity Training (2009),Emergency Life Support Training (to date) Public Order Training (2010) and Officers Safety Training (to date)

Tim was decorated with a medal for my service to Her Majesty, Queen of England and the Royal Household during the occasion of Her Royal Highness Diamond Jubilee in May 2012.
Also another medal was given by the Prime Minister David Cameron, on recognition of his combine effort in making the London Olympics and Paralympics 2012 a success.
I finally retired from active service of the Metropolitan Police service and the Protection of the Royal Household to my beloved country Nigeria to make my impact felt and contribute my quota to the development of security in my dear Nation – Nigeria.