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| Governor Amaechi |
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has hit back at the
former Police Commissioner of the state, Joseph Mbu; describing him as a puppet
of a woman.
The governor was reacting to a statement credited to the
former Police Commissioner who has now being promoted to the rank of an AIG.
Mbu was quoted on Monday in a handing over ceremony as describing Amaechi as a “leopard
whom he (Mbu) tamed.”
The Governor in a statement through his Chief Press Officer
David Oyifor on Tuesday, reacted by calling the former Police Commissioner “a
puppet, who completely lacks the steel and strength of character of a lion, and
is rather a shameless puppet and toothless attack dog of a woman."
Continuing, Amaechi said: “Indeed, it’s very sad, pathetic,
however ironic that Mbu called himself a lion. Which lion? This character call
Mbu Joseph Mbu completely lacks the courage, steel and strength of character of
a lion. This is a man paid by taxpayers to protect, secure and serve the
interests of the people. But when he was in Rivers State, he spurned the
people; trampled on the masses and rather elected to be the partisan servant of
one woman, to be the woman’s tool in causing disaffection, confusion and crises
in Rivers State.
“Mbu shamelessly turned himself into the toothless attack dog
of this woman to fight the government and people of Rivers State.”
“How can a man, who has no strength of character to be
himself, be a man and stand up to a woman, a man who willingly submits himself
to serve as the puppet of a woman, call himself a lion? How ironic! Mr. Mbu, no
lion behaves like that! He is a shame to the Nigerian Police Force.”
The Governor’s statement continued by describing Mbu as one
who represents everything wrong with the Police in the country, alleging that the
former Police Commissioner “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.”
“All these, Mbu did because he was the puppet of one woman, a
woman who clearly has no constitutional role to play in the governance of
Rivers State or Nigeria. Mbu’s only claim to fame and prominence is because he
has turned himself into a willing tool and servant of this woman.”
Governor Amaechi further alleged that when the former Rivers
police commissioner finally left the state, he disobeyed the instruction of the
Inspector General of Police to pack out of his official residence in Rivers
State.
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