By Emmanuel Udom
The
Centre for Rights and Grassroots Initiative (CRGI) has reminded Mbu Joseph Mbu,
the new assistant inspector-general of police in-charge of zone 2 police command that collectively, Lagosians are lions and lioness
who are ever bold and vibrant to tame any erring “lion” that deviate from
respect for the constitution in the discharge of his responsibility.
Nelson Ekujumi,
executive director of CRGI in a press stamen made available to our correspondent
stated that Mbu is welcome to Lagos south-west Nigeria, a state regarded as a land
of centre of excellence.
According to the release, “We are very much aware that the
new posting of AIG Mbu to Lagos is already eliciting negative responses from
far and wide because of his notorious reputation as a law breaking officer who
lacks civility, public decorum, respect for constituted authority and the
constitution.”
The
acts of indiscipline, uncouth and crude language, insubordination and
lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Joseph Mbu in his last three postings in Oyo,
Rivers State and Abuja, the federal capital territory still ranks high as
embarrassment to the image of the Nigeria police and the Nigeria State as well
as in the black book of policing in the world over.
Before
his deployment to Rivers state, he was the Police Boss in Oyo State, where he
reportedly “embarrassed” the Nigeria Police Force so much, that he was removed
from his post.
As
a Sun News Online report of February 11, 2013 puts it, “The Inspector General
of Police, Muhammad Abubakar, has ordered the removal of Oyo State Commissioner
of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu over... (the) occupation of the palace and ancestral
home of Ashipa of Oyo.” Mbu had ‘defied’ a standing court order concerning the
Obaship tussle of Oyo State, between Alaafin of Oyo, and Isale Oyo. He took
sides in the hotly contested matter, and raided the Palace of the Olu Ibadan
with over 200-armed officers, and creating havoc.
We
recall vividly how Mr. Joseph Mbu as the River state commissioner of police had
a running battle with the government and people of Rivers state through
insubordination and undermining the office of the Governor and the constitution
by comprising the security of the state for political reasons.
We also recollect how as the Commissioner of
police, federal capital territory, Abuja, Mr. Mbu attempted to undermine the
constitution through assault on the constitutional rights of Nigerians to
assemble and associate, which was overturned by the then IGP and eventually
declared null and void by a court of law only recently.
As
Mr. Mbu settles down to his new posting as AIG zone 2, we at CRGI, want to use
this medium to admonish him to ensure strict observance to the tenets of the
constitution as a responsible and dutiful police officer in the discharge of
his duty which is already a subject of discourse because his antecedents as a
political, partisan, lawless and unprofessional police officer.
We
as well want to warn that Lagosians are highly intelligent, dynamic,
sophisticated and law abiding people who will not tolerate any police officer
no matter his status who attempts to violate the constitution through
lawlessness and partisanship in the discharge of his statutory responsibility.
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