…Condemns Presidency’s silence on disrupted Rivers rally
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, January 18, (THEWILL) – The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has joined the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in pleading with President Goodluck Jonathan to send the controversial Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Mbu Joseph Mbu, to Borno or Yobe State to help end the Boko Haram menace.
“We totally agree with Prof. Soyinka’s recommendation that CP Joseph Mbu should be sent to where his skills are needed most since his use of ‘minimum force’ could send a serving Senator to a London hospital. If he is permitted to use ‘maximum force’ the menace of Boko Haram will be a thing of the past! We, therefore, join the respected Nobel laureate in pleading with the Presidency to as a matter of urgency redeploy CP Mbu to either Borno or Yobe state as we do not need him in Rivers State,” the Rivers APC Interim Chairman, Chief Davies Ikanya, said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt at the weekend.
In the statement signed by the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to the Interim State Chairman, APC Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Ikanya decried the graveyard silence by the Presidency over last Sunday’s show of shame in which policemen allegedly acting on Mbu’s orders disrupted a peaceful rally by the Save Rivers Movement and allegedly shot Senator Magnus Abe, who is now recuperating in a London hospital.
The statement described such silence as criminal, saying it should be condemned not minding the level of hatred harboured against the Rivers State people by the Presidency.
“Rivers APC welcomed the decision of the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to investigate the incident. It, however, warned that the investigation must not be a charade intended to pool wool over the eyes of Nigerians and the international community.
“All relevant individuals, including Senator Abe and Sir Tony Okocha, the Chief of Staff to Governor Chibuike Amaechi – both of whom were shot during the disrupted rally, should be interviewed by the IGP’s investigating team. The inquiry should also touch on the unholy marriage between the Police in Rivers State since the arrival of CP Mbu and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ascertain if CP Mbu is a member of PDP or not and if he attends PDP meeting. Anything short of this is unacceptable,” the party also said.
It however cautioned the Inspector General of Police’s investigating team to disregard any document from “one fake Pastor Jerry Needam, the assumed mouth piece of PDP whose main stock of trade is peddling rumours and falsehoods, who because of his poor educational background, reads and interprets any document before him upside down resulting to his nickname as “Jerry the Liar”’, saying he may misguide the panel.
The party finally appealed to IGP Abubakar not to allow CP Mbu and his collaborators to rubbish his hard-earned reputation as an exemplary Police Officer.
