CALL FOR INVESTIGATION AND REMOVAL OF MR. MBU JOSEPH MBU AS RIVERS STATE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FOR IMPROPER AND UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

                                    

1.      The Honourable Chairman,

Senate Committee on Police Affairs,

National Assembly Complex,

Abuja.

2.       The Honourable Chairman,

House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs,

National Assembly Complex,

Abuja.

3.      The Honourable Minister,

Federal Ministry of Police Affairs,

Federal Secretariat Complex,

 Abuja.

4.      The Inspector General of Police,

Nigeria Police Force,

Force Headquarters Louis Edet House,

Abuja.

5.      The Chairman,

Police Service Commission,

Federal Secretariat Complex,

Abuja.

 

PUBLIC PETITION

CALL FOR INVESTIGATION AND REMOVAL OF MR. MBU JOSEPH MBU AS RIVERS STATE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FOR IMPROPER AND UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

MR. MBU JOSEPH MBU RIVER STATE POLICE COMMISSIONER

The Centre for Rights and Grassroots Initiative (CRGI) wish to draw your attention to a press briefing addressed on the 20^th June 2013 by the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu and widely circulated in the national media on 21^st June 2013 in which he abused his office in casting aspersions on the character and integrity of the office of the democratically elected Governor of Rivers State which is unprofessional, undemocratic, unconstitutional, crude, barbaric, irresponsible, provocative, reckless, improper, an assault of public peace and the 1999 constitution as amended.

The statements credited to Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu in the said press briefing if indeed they are true, speaks volume of the image and character of the Nigeria Police as a lawless institution lacking discipline and decorum in which if urgent steps are not taken to correct this anomaly, then our society is in grave danger.

By his reckless and provocative comments, Mr. Mbu Joseph undermined and ridiculed his office as the No. 1 security officer of Rivers State who cannot be entrusted with performing his impartial and constitutional functions of securing the lives and properties of Nigerians and Non Nigerians living in Rivers State.

He also acted unprofessionally, criminally and unconstitutionally by daring anyone to go on street protest in River state without Police permission in utter disregard and contempt of the fundamental human rights of Nigerians as enshrined in the constitution. His comments shows that he’s not worthy of the office he presently occupies and so he should be relieved.

It is in the light of this misconduct and unprofessional behaviour of Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu a senior and serving security officer that the Centre for Rights and Grassroots Initiative (CRGI) is hereby calling on both Committees of the National Assembly to investigate and recommend appropriate disciplinary actions for this law threatening officer as a deterrent to other lawless officers of his like still in the security agencies.

We are also calling on the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji M. D. Abubakar to immediately recall Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu for being a blemish to the sagging image of the Police and for threatening the peace and tranquility of the good people of Rivers State by his unprofessional and invitation to anarchy misconduct.

We want to as well use this medium to admonish the IGP to as a matter of urgency and in tandem with his reformation agenda for the Nigeria Police put in place a workable reorientation programme to redirect the thinking and mentality of his men and officers on the duties and responsibilities of a civil and disciplined Police force in a democratic dispensation.

We also want to call on the Police Service commission to ensure that appropriate disciplinary actions are taken against Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu for bringing the image of the Nigeria Police to public opprobrium by his unprofessional and improper misconduct.