Assistant Inspector General of police, Mr. Joseph Mbu has been dragged into a legal tussle with renown legal practitioner and Human Right Activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN).
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the service of court papers on the Police Service Commission in Abuja in a suit seeking declaration that an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, is unfit to remain a police officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
The ex parte application for leave of court to serve the PSC outside of jurisdiction was brought before Justice Ibrahim Buba by a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN).
Falana had on Thursday appeared in court and announced appearance as counsel representing the plaintiff, a lawyer, Mr. Tope Alabi, who filed the case.


Alabi is urging the court to compel the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission and the Attorney General of the Federation to immediately declare Mbu’s office with the Force vacant over alleged abuse of power.
The plaintiff’s legal action against the AIG stemmed from a recent order reportedly given by Mbu to the police officers of the Ogun State Police Command to kill 20 civilians for any police officer killed during the general elections.
Alabi is contending that Mbu, having sworn to uphold the rule of law and abide by the Constitution, acted in contravention of Section 308 (1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution, when he gave such an order to his men.
According to the lawyer, such an utterance, which was widely reported in the national dailies was “capable of inciting mass killings, violence and anarchy,” in the country.
At the hearing of the case on Thursday, Falana after announcing appearance brought the ex parte application to the notice of the court.
He said, “My Lord, we have a motion for leave to serve the third respondent outside jurisdiction.”
The plaintiff also filed three other applications which have not been heard.
They are a motion for interim injunction restraining Mbu from giving any orders to officers under him during the general elections pending the hearing of the plaintiff’s motion for interlocutory injunction.
The motion for interlocutory injunction is seeking to restrain Mbu from giving any orders pending the hearing of the substantive suit.
The plaintiff also has a pending application seeking to abridge the time within which the suit will be heard and determined in view of its urgency.
Buba, after granting the applicant’s prayer to serve the PSC with the court papers, subsequently adjourned till March 16 for further hearing.
The applicant, in the substantive suit, said he recalled that Mbu served in Rivers State and in the Federal Capital Territory “where he continued to violate the Constitution by exhibiting intolerant and unlawful behavior, to the extent that the IGP had to distant himself from him in the latest instance, by restating that the mandate of the police is to save and protect lives and not to kill.”
The plaintiff asked the court to determine “whether Mbu is fit and proper to remain in office considering his controversial utterances and his public misconduct and whether the lives of Nigerians are not in danger as long as Mbu remains in office.”
He sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining Mbu from giving any orders during the March 28 and April 11 general elections.
He also asked the court to restrain Mbu from arresting any governor in the light of Section 308 (1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution.
He argued,“It is in the interest of justice to declare the first defendant unfit to be and to remain a police officer in Nigeria, considering his public conduct all the time and to declare his position and seat vacant and a replacement made without delay.”

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The topic should have been explicitly stated as APC vs MBU

Nigeria a country full of surprises..

Ghen ghen!!!

Mbu! Mbu!! Mbu!!! Aw many times have I called you? Must you fight? Behave o... U were brought in to maintain peace order not to come and talk tough and incite hate and anger!

Maintain o!

Congratulations Mr apc lawyer . GEJ till 2019!!!

Why is APC afraid of Mr. Mbu?

APC wants to use Court sanctions to tame AIG Mbu but they forgot that .............


Mbu is the Great Lion Tamer


Ask Mr. Amaechi

Falana listen to yourself and what yu want court to do Even if Mbu mention that statement which i believe was misquoted , it was with a clause .That if a policeman is killed, does Falana intend to kill a policeman? Has falana' apc planing to kill policemen? This is mo case submission bec is simply a show of force to deter you and d apc hoodlums. Dead case yu have

Yeye falana and apc scared of mbu since ...........you know

Mr mbu.. your days are numbered... dis is Lagos and not Rivers. we have enlighten people.

Adubiaran:
Mr mbu.. your days are numbered... dis is Lagos and not Rivers. we have enlighten people.

Are you aware that MBU is also a very sound lawyer?
If your people are truely enlightened as you claim, they would have know that THIS CASE WILL END UP MAKING FALANA DISPLAY HIS LEVEL OF FOOLISHNESS AND STUPIDITY BECAUSE HE HAS LOST THE CASE.

Mbu will cure Falana of his madness soon.

mbu ask tafa balogun! was used n dumped with disgracement.

I hope the case leads ends up teaching Mbu to be more respectful of the law.
Preferably he should be replaced because a trigger happy cop cant be trusted

So when is Mr falana going to court to force Buhari to present his certificate? When is Mr falana going to court to compell Tinubu to explain the source of his massive wealth? Is falana going to court to force one fashola to comply to the spirits of FOI law that he rejected vehemently over his numerous dirty deals ith fashola? Falana is just another attention LovePeddler who latched on the anti Abacha NADECO rants to sell himself as a human right activist when in actual fact he is a narrow minded tribal champion

minister2015:
mbu ask tafa balogun! was used n dumped with disgracement.

disgracement? May March 28 come and go that we may be spared all manners of gunshots...from MBU now to this. Amen

Adubiaran:
Mr mbu.. your days are numbered... dis is Lagos and not Rivers. we have enlighten people.

Mumu