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| Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso and Sule Lamido arriving Port Harcourt |
A team of Northern governors on a solidarity visit to Rivers State
Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, have asked the Inspector General of Police to
immediately redeploy the Commissioner of Police in the state, Joseph
Mbu, over what they described as his unprofessionalism and political
partisanship in the multiple crises rocking the state.
In a statement distributed to
journalists shortly before they drove out of the Government House in the
company of their host, the governors — Babangida Aliyu (Niger) Murtala
Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) — said
having interacted with stakeholders in the state, it was clear that
Commissioner Mbu was being used to persecute the Rivers State Governor.
“We
wish to call on the Inspector General of Police to hearken to the
voices of reason and immediately redeploy and discipline Commissioner
Joseph Mbu,” the statement said. “His action smacks of unprofessionalism
and political partisanship which is unbecoming of his office.”
Talking
really tough, the governors threatened that they would reconsider their
earlier commitment to contribute part of their federal allocations
towards the funding of the police if the Rivers police boss was not
removed and sanctioned.