Mbu Is A Disgrace To The Police Force - Amaechi

Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has dismissed the comments by the state former Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, who described himself as a lion that tamed the governor in Port Harcourt.

Mbu who was recently promoted to Assistant Inspector-General of Police said this on Monday while handing over to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu, in Abuja.

Amaechi, however, scoffed at Mbu’s claims to be a lion.

In a statement by his spokesman, David Iyofor in Port Harcourt yesterday, the governor described Mbu as a puppet that completely lacks the steel and strength of character found in a lion.

“Indeed, it is very sad, pathetic; however, ironic that Mbu called himself a lion. Which lion? This character called Mbu Joseph Mbu completely lacks the courage, steel and strength of character of a lion. Rather he is a shameless, corrupt puppet of a woman,”

“This is a man paid by tax payers to protect, secure and serve the interests of the people. But when he was in Rivers State, he spurned the people; he trampled on the masses and rather elected to be the partisan servant of one woman, to be the woman’s tool in causing disaffection, confusion and crises in Rivers State,” he said.

The governor maintained that Mbu epitomizes everything that is wrong with the police in Nigeria. Amaechi recounted that when the former state police commissioner finally left the state, he (Mbu) disobeyed the instruction of the IGP to pack out of his official residence in the state. He said Mbu not only disobeyed the Inspector General of Police during his time in Rivers State, but also clearly acted lawlessly, like a man who was above the law and in fact, turned himself into the law.

“Mbu refused to pack out because he said he would come back here (to Rivers State) as the commissioner to organise the 2015 elections. During his time here, when we hold Security Council meetings in Rivers State, he goes to report the proceedings of the meetings, what everyone said, to his woman puppeteer.  What a shame. Mbu is a disgrace to the police force.”

The statement concluded, “a thousand Mbus can neither tame Amaechi nor the people of Rivers State to surrender their constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights to anyone, no matter how highly placed.