Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi have dismissed comments by the infamous and draconian 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, said this while handling over to the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, on Monday in Abuja.

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, and is rather a shameless, corrupt puppet and toothless attack dog of a woman.

The statement reads: “Indeed its 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. Rather he’s a shameless, corrupt puppet of a woman. 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, he 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 and corruptly 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! You are a disgrace and shame to the Nigerian Police Force.”

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. “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. Mbu is a very bad example of a police officer.”

Amaechi recounted that when the former Rivers police commissioner finally left the state, Mbu disobeyed the instruction of the Inspector General of Police to pack out of his official residence in Rivers State.

“Mbu refused to pack out because he said he would come back here (to Rivers State) as the Commissioner to organize the 2015 elections. When eventually he packed out and this is a long time after his successor had resumed here, he took everything including the carpet and nothing has happened to him, nobody has punished him for that. During his time here, when we hold Security Council meetings in Rivers State, he goes to report the proceedings of the meetings, what everyone said, to his woman puppeteer. What a shame. Mbu is a disgrace to the Police Force”
The statement concluded that a thousand Mbus can neither “tame”(using the word of Mbu) Governor Amaechi nor the people of Rivers State to surrender their constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights to anyone, no matter how highly placed.

DAVID IYOFOR
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Rivers State
September 16, 2014

http://governor.riversstate.gov.ng/press/amaechi-replies-mbu-you-are-no-lion-but-a-shameless-corrupt-puppet-of-a-woman/

i dont care about the politics between the two grown men with ego's the size of whatchumacallit.

Amaechi's rejoinder to Mbu's comments is rather long-winded. if i may add, it is also laced with condescending innuendo's at the female gender.

Mbu on the the other hand must realise he is a professional. He must avoid getting sucked into this or any other political brouhaha.

Rotimi, you see your life, when you cannot control your tongue.

Firefire: “... It is only a lion that can tame a leopard. I tamed the leopard in Port Harcourt; each time he remembers my face, he would remember how I tamed him,” Mbu said, drawing loud laughter from the audience.

Amaechi and Mbu are secret lovers....
Duh Mbu doesn't look much like a Lion to me...

Mbu is a woman wrapper and not a lion as he claimed. because whenever a lion sets out for a mission, it achieves that mission. But in Mbu's case, he never achieved any of his mission. Instead, he Mbu was chased out of Rivers state by governor Amaechi. So who tamed who?

Mbu should be ashamed of himself for being a stooge in a woman's handbag instead of abiding by his constitutional obligations. Mbu is not and will never be a lion. He is akin to the house mouse who feeds on left over foods and steals when he finds none.