The Senator representing Rivers South-East, Magnus Abe, has reinforced the calls for the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, over his “involvement” in the state’s political crisis.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, the state capital, yesterday, Abe, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream, expressed sadness that the police hierarchy had done nothing even when the National Assembly passed the resolution asking for Mbu’s redeployment.
“I think that it is an embarrassment to the police for them to wait this long. If you look at the report of the senate committee, it is clear that crime rate has gone up in Port Harcourt.
“It is clear that normal policing is not going on in the state. It is clear that the citizens are at risk, so moving somebody who is not contributing positively to the state is not something that the police need to wait for the National Assembly to pass a resolution.
“It is clear that the man cannot function as commissioner of police in Rivers State,” he said.
The senator insisted that the police commissioner should be redeployed so that the peace and stability of the state would not continue to be threatened.
“He will go. There is no doubt about it.”
