Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has dismissed comments by the former state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, who described himself as a lion that tamed the governor in Port Harcourt.
Mbu, who was recently promoted
Assistant Inspector-General of Police, spoke while handing over to the Federal
Capital Territory, FCT, Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu, on Monday
in Abuja.
However, Governor Amaechi, in a
statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. David Iyofor in Port Harcourt,
described Mbu as a puppet, who lacks the steel and strength of a lion.
He said: “It is very sad, pathetic
and ironic that Mbu called himself a lion. Which lion? This character called
Joseph Mbu completely lacks the courage, steel and strength of a lion. Rather
he is a puppet.
“This is a man paid by taxpayers to
protect, secure and serve the interests of the people, but, when he was in
Rivers State, he spurned the people, trampled on the masses and rather elected
to be the partisan servant of one person, in causing disaffection, confusion
and crises in Rivers State.
“Mbu shamelessly and corruptly
turned himself into a toothless attack dog to fight the government and people
of Rivers State.
“How can a man who has no strength of
character; a man who willingly submits himself to serve as a puppet call
himself a lion? How ironic.
“Mr. Mbu, no lion behaves like that.
You are a disgrace and shame to the Nigerian Police Force.”
Governor Amaechi insisted that Mbu
epitomises everything that was wrong with the police in Nigeria.
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.”
He said Mbu can neither tame him nor
the people of Rivers State to surrender their constitutionally-guaranteed
democratic rights to anyone, no matter how highly placed.
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