For those who may be plotting the exit of the New Assistant Inspector General of police in charge of zone 6, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, especially his core critics, the major opposition Party, APC who had persistently maintained that he should be transferred from their area, this may not be the best of information.
Mbu , was carefully selected among a list of the AIGs by the police high command to head for Lagos to do what they term a special and peculiar assignment, says dependable police source. It is reasoned that it is only a policeman of Mbu,s mold that can work successfully in a peculiar environment like Lagos at this tensed political period.
Source at the force headquarters in Abuja informed that leadership’s conviction about Mbu for the Lagos and Ogun job is hinged on his ability to work professionally and achieve result under the most challenging environment not minding whose ox is gored
Force public Relations officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, acting commissioner of police said, the call for the redeployment of AIG Mbu is irrelevant saying ”We do not respond to such call. AIG Mbu is a police officer, a senior officer for that matter. Postings and re- deployment of police officers is the sole prerogative of police high authorities and not calls from individuals or groups”
“Mbu,s track records have set him apart as an officer who knows his onions and is able to deliver professional within the ambit of law coupled with his capability to pull the proverbial chestnut out of the fire.” Says our source
Mbu is said to have supervised the gubernatorial Elections in Edo state that brought Adams Oshiomole an APC governor to power for the second term, during which he received an overwhelming commendation from the ex foremost labour leader describing him as a strict thorough and fair policeman. Even in the face of the intimidating influence of the current PDP BOT chairman, Chief Tony Anenih who is also known to be a retired policeman, Mbu was said to have stood his grounds , insisting on fairness and equity for all . “It could only take an independent- minded policeman to do his job without fear or intimidation in such circumstance “ the source said..
While in Oyo which is equally an APC state where he served as commissioner of police, the state house of assembly was said to have held a special valedictory session for him as mark of his exemplary performance when he was transferred.
Continuing the source who is one of the oldest DIGs also informed that in Rivers where he had bad press as a result of the face- off between him and governor Rotimi Amaechi, for reasons not unconnected with his characteristic independent mindedness ,it is on record that Mbu had more commendations from various communities in Rivers than all other commissioners of Police who had served in the state.
Continuing the source informed that a week before he was posted to Lagos , the APC in Rivers state got a wind of the impending general postings in the Police and quickly wrote a letter to the Police Service Commission PSC asking that they do not want Mbu in Zone 6 comprising Rivers and Akwa Ibom. “ Having served as CP in Rivers with the gale of dust his tenure raised, the leadership was never contemplating posting Mbu to anywhere around the south south region” said the source
“To anyone conversant with movement of police during elections it is an open knowledge that policemen are posted to fresh areas where they have not served before and Mbu’s posting falls within this extant practice .” said source.
Concluding he said the police would not reverse itself or change the practice because of unsubstantiated public outcry against one officer especially when it knows that it is politically motivated. “Reversing itself on statutory practice is tantamount to self defeat” he said.

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