Joseph MBU
Despite assurances by authorities of the Nigeria Police Force, the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday raised the alarm over the redeployment of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in-charge of zone 2, Umaru Manko and replacing him with AIG Joseph Mbu.
Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, who announced the deployment that affected 28 AIGs, said the postings were part of the on-going re-organisation in the Force.
But reacting to the development, the Lagos APC Spokesman, Joe Igbokwe accused the Federal Government of redeploying Mbu to Lagos for an ulterior motive.
Igbokwe, who spoke at a press briefing yesterday in his office in Lagos, kicked against Mbu’s posting to Lagos and said the state was ready for Mbu.
“Mbu must understand clearly that this is Lagos. Since Lagos was created in 1967, it has been in the hands of progressives, not Rivers or Abuja. This is a special state where the best minds live. This is the city of civil societies and the media. We know his antecedents and if he brings all those unbecoming behaviours to Lagos, we will retire him from the police.
“Mbu is known for some kind of jobs so, it is not in doubt that those who sent him to Lagos, brought him for a mission. We are watching, so before they make any move, we know where they are going. We boldly welcome Mbu to Lagos, but he should tread carefully. He should be careful. If he fails to heed our advice, we will run him down and he will go down if he tried the threat and abuses he did in Rivers, he will regret them. If he brings those antics he exhibited in Rivers and Abuja, he will regret joining the force.
“We know he is not coming to do normal police routine duties, but we will advise him to drop all those excess baggage he exhibited in Port Harcourt. He was rejected in Rivers, so if he comes here to abuse a sitting governor, we will not take it from him. Governor Fashola is the Chief Security Officer of the state and if he abuses him, we will run him down. We will tell him that this is the city of both the electronic and the print media”.
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