
Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has dismissed
comments by the former Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph
Mbu, who, while apparently referring to Governor Amaechi, described
himself as a lion, who tamed the governor in Port Harcourt.
Mbu, who was recently promoted Assistant Inspector-General of Police,
had while handling over to the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson
Inalegwu, on Monday, in Abuja, called himself “a lion who tamed
leopard.”
However, Governor Amaechi scoffed at Mbu’s claims to be a lion.
In a statement by his spokesman, David Iyofor, in Port Harcourt, on
Tuesday, the governor described Mbu as a puppet, who completely lacks
the steel and strength of character of a lion.
The statement reads: “indeed, its very sad, pathetic, however, ironic
that Mbu called himself a lion. Which lion? This character call Joseph
Mbu, completely lacks the courage and strength of character of a lion.
This is a man paid by taxpayers to protect, secure and serve the
interest of the people. But when he was in Rivers State, he spurned the
people, he trampled on the masses and rather elected to be
partisan.Governor Amaechi maintained that Mbu epitomizes everything that
is 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 is above the law and in fact,
turned himself into the law.
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