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  • Jos posting was not demotion – Mbu

    Jos posting was not demotion – Mbu

    The new Commandant of the Police Staff College, Joseph Mbu, has said his posting to the college was not a demotion or punishment as being speculated in some quarters.

    He spoke with journalists after he resumed work at the college on Monday.

    Mbu, who arrived the college at 11:00am, said, “Some said I have been forcefully retired, while some said I have been demoted. Some even said my posting to Jos was a punishment.

    “These are the wishes of my detractors, as far as I’m concern. I am a professional police officer, ready to serve anywhere I am posted posted to and I will deploy my professional training to make a mark at my duty post.

    “Let me tell you that the Inspector General of Police has promised that training of officers will be a priority. And the IGP wanted to send one of his finest officers to the college so that the college can be transformed is such a way to be able to serve the training need of police officer in the country.

    “That is the main reason I was posted to the college. So my posting was not a punishment as my detractors intend to portray.

    “And I want to assure everyone that very soon, within the next two months, this college will begin to witness serious transformation. The college has been dormant, there are people in Jos that does not even know this college exists. That is not good enough, now that I’m here, the impact of this college will be felt positively.”

     

  • IGP redeploys Mbu, 18 others

    IGP redeploys Mbu, 18 others

    … 49 CPs affected too

    The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, Friday approved the redeployment of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Lagos, Mbu Joseph Mbu and 18 others to various states across the federation.

    Mbu has been redeployed to Police Staff College, Jos, as Commandant.

    Arase also redeployed 49 ‎Commissioners of Police to various states.

    The ex-Force spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu, has also been redeployed to Kogi State as commissioner of police.

    The posting, according to a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Abayomi Shogunle, followed the vacancies created by recent retirement and promotions of senior police officers.

    Those redeployed AIGs are – ‎Tambari Mohammed ‎(AIG Zone 1, Kano), ‎ Bala A. Hassan ‎(AIG Zone 2, Lagos), ‎Mohammed J. Abubakar ‎(AIG Zone, 3 Yola), Yahaya G. Ardo (‎AIG Zone 4, Makurdi),  ‎Musa A. Daura (AIG Zone 5, Benin), ‎‎Adisa Baba Bolanta ( AIG Zone 6, Calabar),‎ ‎Ballah Magaji Nasarawa  (AIG Zone, 7 Abuja),  ‎Lawal Tanko (‎AIG Zone 8, Lokoja), ‎Usman A. Gwary ‎(AIG Zone 9,Umuahia) and ‎Mohammed J. Gana (AIG Zone 10, Sokoto).

    Others are – Helen   Kalafite Adeyemi (AIG Zone 11, Osogbo), Johnson A. Ogunsakin  (AIG Zone 12, Bauchi), ‎Patrick Dokumor ‎(Force Secretary, FHQ, Abuja), ‎‎Adenrele T. Shinaba (Commandant, Nigeria Police Academy, Kano), ‎Edgar Nanakumo (‎AIG Works, FHQ, Abuja),  ‎Yerima F. Irimiya (AIG, Maritime Police), ‎ ‎Olufemi Adenaike ‎(AIG Training and Development, FHQ, Abuja) and ‎‎James Caulcrick ( ‎I/C Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department, Abuja).

     

     

  • Mbu warns police personnel against indiscipline, bribery

    Mbu warns police personnel against indiscipline, bribery

    The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG ) zone two, Joseph Mbu, has again warned police personnel to shun indiscipline or face his wrath.

    He made the call at the weekend after meeting the Commissioners of Police in the zone for a review of some of the issues raised at the security summit held in Abuja.

    He frowned at drunkenness of policemen, bribery, extortion, abuse of power and shabby dressing, vowing to deal decisively with any personnel found wanting.

    The AIG directed senior police officers to assume position of leadership and discipline any errant junior officer  they come across, adding that the Commissioners of Police cannot be everywhere at the same time.

    Mbu, who expressed hope for a better police, noted that with the promise of funding made by President Muhammadu Buhari, the force would no longer go cap in hands begging for money from state governors and local government chairmen.

    According to the AIG, the Nigeria Police had been turned to beggars and nuisance to the point that state governors and chairmen no longer like taking phone calls from police commissioners, area commanders and Divisional Police Officers (DPOs).

    Mbu, who also frowned at the activities of land grabbers, accused police personnel of shielding the criminal elements, warning them to desist because their actions were hindering development and scaring investors.

    The AIG threatened to prosecute any police personnel found conniving with land grabbers alongside the suspects,  adding that he would not tolerate anyone who drags the force’ reputation to the mud.

    He reminded them of the policy statement of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, demanding that every police personnel must respect the human rights of citizens.

    He said,” There is a new dawn now in the Nigeria Police and there is hope now that the police will improve.

    “Because of the address of the President and Commander in Chief at the opening of the security summit, the Nigeria police would soon smile.

    “But we must work hard and maintain integrity because the President has promised to take care of us. “

     

  • 627 million scam: AIG Mbu lied, says businessman

    627 million scam: AIG Mbu lied, says businessman

    The Assistant Inspector General of Police in Charge of Zone Two, Joseph Mbu, has  been accused of telling lies over the alleged torture and illegal detention of the Managing Director of Kafisto Oil and Gas Ltd., Mr Uwem Antia and his business partner, Alhaji Suleiman Yerima by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and policemen under the zone two command led by DSP Ibrahim Dantoro.

    Yerima maintained that they were tortured, beaten and detained for 80 days illegally by EFCC and policemen under the command of AIG Mbu.

    He also insisted that the foreign exchange business deal for which they were being persecuted was legitimate and in order.

    Alhaji Yerima who spoke with The Nation in Abuja said he stands by his allegations against the EFCC and AIG Mbu as he released to the public the photograph of Antia who was also tortured, beaten and had his leg broken by police operatives.

    He said amputation of the leg of Antia is being contemplated by the Hospital for now.

    However, EFCC Spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren maintained the position of the anti-graft agency, insisting that it “amounted to tissue of lies from the pit of hell that EFCC tortured accuse persons”.

    Uwujaren said: “EFCC does not have any torture chamber anywhere in the country.

    “I have told you that EFCC has nothing to do with the alleged torture of Antia, or Suleiman Yerima, if you choose to believe what they are alleging, well, I don’t have any thing else to say.

    However, if their alleged torture was from somewhere else, I dont know, but certainly not from us. There is no iota of truth in it.”

    AIG Mbu had also at a news conference in Lagos denied that his men tortured any accused persons. He described the allegation as false and mischievously concocted by the suspects with a view to fraustrate the ongoing investigations into their serial crimes.

    AIG alleged that the officer in charge of the investigation, Ibrahim Dantoro was offered 50 million bribe to truncate the case, but he refused and informed the command about it.

    But Suleiman Yerima said AIG Mbu was being economical with the truth, saying that as a well trained police officer, if an accused person offered a bribe, the appropriate thing to do was for the police to set up the accuse, collect the bribe and use it as evidence against the accused person.

  • Fraud: We rejected N50m bribe – Mbu

    Fraud: We rejected N50m bribe – Mbu

    The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone two, Joseph Mbu, on Thursday said his men turned down a N50million bribe offered by Bureau De Change (BDC) operators who duped their clients of N624million.

    Mbu was reacting to allegations of torture leveled against his personnel by two suspects in the case Alhaji Yerima Suleiman and Uwem Antia.

    The suspects had petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting investigation into alleged unlawful detention, torture meted on them by the Zone two Police and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    He described the allegation as false and mischievous, concocted by the suspects with a view to frustrate the ongoing investigations into their serial crimes.

    Mbu explained that the officer in charge, Ibrahim Dantoro was offered N50million to truncate the case but he refused and informed the command about it.

    According to Mbu the suspects belong to a fraud syndicate claiming to be BDC operators to obtain money from unsuspecting members of the public, calling on the suspects to come out and face trial.

    He explained that Suleiman, Antia and one Reagan Edet, who is at large, in February, fraudulently obtained N424million from two of their victims with a view to provide the dollar equivalent.

    Mbu stated that when the complainant brought their case to the command, it was learnt that the same suspects have defrauded another victim of N200million and the case has been reported to the EFCC.

    He said the suspects were subsequently arrested by the EFCC, after which the command requested and got permission to interrogate them in relation to the case before it.

    “After police interrogation, the suspects were returned back to the EFCC on April 7, within the period of court order for their detention. There was no torture or infringement of the suspects’ rights, neither did they make allegations of such while in police detention.

    “While investigation was ongoing, another petition dated March 26, written by a law firm, Ayo Olubo & Co, accused the suspects and their cohorts of obtaining $2.5million.

    “Our investigation further revealed that Suleiman, Antia, Edet and their cohorts are not forex dealers and do not own nor operate under any BDC. The same Alhaji Yerima Suleiman is presently being prosecuted for a similar crime at a Federal High Court in Jos since 2009. He is equally being investigated by the EFCC as unrepentant and hardened fraudster,” Mbu stated.

     

  • Mbu’s ugly fangs

    Ask the controversial Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2, Joseph Mbu, what he was trying to do by boasting that his fang-baring method made peace possible during the Governorship and National Assembly polls in Lagos.

    According to a report, Mbu said “the threat he issued to kill 10 people for every policeman killed made the Governorship and National Assembly elections to be peaceful in Lagos.”  He was quoted as saying: “Generally, people are becoming more and more mature.” But he left no one in doubt about what he thought of the potency of his threat.  He said: “Also, the statement I made, which people misconstrued, also helped the police because people say, ‘this man has come o, and whatever he says, he means it’, and that instilled fear in them.”

    Mbu continued: “Go and check all the places where I served, how many people have died? We don’t kill anyhow. But you have to instil fear so that people will have more respect for the police. Now we have succeeded as far as I am concerned.”

    Considering Mbu’s status in the force, his idea of success achieved by terroristic means and his promotion of fear-based public respect for the police are thought-provoking. If an AIG thinks and speaks in this manner, what is to be expected of those he is supposed to head and control? To say the least, it suggests crudity and backwardness, which may explain why the country’s police force continues to attract public thumbs-down for demonstrable unprofessionalism. What is advantageous and should be pursued is for the police to earn lasting public respect through professional conduct.

    By his own account, Mbu is aware of his monstrous image; and he is perhaps haunted by his past actions in the line of duty, particularly in Rivers State and Abuja where he exhibited brazen contempt for the people by being an oppressive puppet of the politically-powerful.  This time also, he has shown contempt for the collective intelligence by arguing that his threatening words were “misconstrued.”

    To go by Mbu’s example, both then and now, it must make sense to suggest a planned re-education for police hierarchs, especially with the approach of a new federal administration to be led by President-elect Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    At the time he issued his threat, which was roundly condemned by right-thinking members of the public, it was evident that he had dark motives. Mbu’s new tune is certainly not exculpatory, no matter what he wants the public to believe. He needs to be reminded that his police uniform and station are no reasons for him to terrorise the public.

  • Lagos restriction may extend to 8pm – Mbu

    Lagos restriction may extend to 8pm – Mbu

    The restriction on human and vehicular movement may be extended from 5pm to 8pm on Saturday.

    The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Mbu Joseph Mbu, gave this indication during a visit to the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, Mr. Akin Orebiyi, in his office.

    The police chief said the peculiarity of the state makes it imperative to take this preemptive action in order to ensure that there is no breach of security in the state during and after the polls.

    As part of security measures put in place by police authorities, Mbu disclosed that three commissioners of police would be in charge of security in the state’s three senatorial zones.

    He added that the commissioners would be held accountable if anything goes wrong within their areas of jurisdiction.

    The AIG appealed to residents of the state to maintain peace, warning that he would not tolerate any attack on his men.

  • Falana appears in suit seeking Mbu’s removal

    Falana appears in suit seeking Mbu’s removal

    A lawyer- turned activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has offered to represent a lawyer, Mr. Tope Alabi, who is praying the Federal High Court in Lagos to strip the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Mbu Joseph Mbu, of his rank and declare his office vacant for allegedly abusing his powers.

    During Thursday’s hearing, Falana announced appearance for the plaintiff, and moved an ex-parte application on his client’s behalf.

    The application was for leave to serve the Police Service Commission with the suit in Abuja.

    “We have a motion for leave to serve the third respondent outside jurisdiction,” Falana said.

    Justice Ibrahim Buba granted the application.

    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 election 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.

    In the substantive suit, numbered FHC/L/CS/149/15, the plaintiff is seeking a declaration that the first defendant (Mbu) “is unfit to be a police officer in Nigeria.”

    It followed Mbu’s alleged threat to kill 20 innocent civilians for any policeman killed during the general election.

    The plaintiff is praying the court to direct the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, the Police Service Commission and the Attorney-General of the Federation,

    Mohammed Adoke (SAN) (who are the second to fourth defendants) to declare Mbu’s office vacant and replace him without further delay.

    Alabi said Mbu, as a senior police officer, swore to uphold the rule of law and abide by the Constitution, but has allegedly been behaving as if he is above the law.

     

  • Sack Mbu now

    Sack Mbu now

    •If he were not a cop, he should have been in a dock

    Policemen in civilised climes are taught to be well comported in their interface with the populace. This is essential because they are peace enforcers and cannot afford to be seen as bullies of the citizenry that they are paid to protect. The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) ordinarily should be civilised even though the acts of  misconduct of some men and officers like Joseph Mbu, Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Lagos, have called to question the faculty of the police to discharge its constitutional duties.

    We owe nobody apologies for concluding that with a top officer like AIG Mbu in the force, that otherwise invaluable institution is fast losing its established essence. The reason is not farfetched. Recently, Mbu was reported in the media to have said that for every one policeman killed, he would kill 20 civilians in return. We had thought that he was quoted out of context but in a crass display of impunity, the top cop, again, repeated last week in the media that it matters not the number of people that policemen under his command could kill in self-defence.

    Mbu was at his rampaging best while speaking with journalists at the inauguration of the Olorunsogo II Power Station by President Goodluck Jonathan in Olorunsogo area of Ogun State when he declared: “I still stand by what I said…The number I kill is immaterial because a policeman is also a human being… And what I said is very clear: that if any violent group attacks my policemen, my policemen should attack them violently.’’

    We recollect that Mbu had said in widely condemned outbursts while addressing his men at the Ogun State Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta: “If one of my men is killed, I shall kill 20 of them, but don’t shoot first. If they shoot you, shoot back in self-defence. Anybody who fires you, fire him back in self-defence.”

    The scary deductions from Mbu’s unprofessional statement have dire consequences on what to expect from policing during the forthcoming elections and even beyond. It also shows how insignificant the police leadership holds human lives that the constitution deems sacrosanct. The police as an institution is saddled with prevention or quelling of riots and not to cause further conflagration through indiscriminate killings. The country is presumed to be running a civil government and what is expected of the police in a democracy, at critical moments, is to get suspected criminals apprehended and later arraigned in a court of law where judgment will be passed. Contrary to Mbu’s irrational position of canvassing for resort to kangaroo justice where he said; ‘Is it not when the person is alive that he is coming to give evidence?’; we state that times over, witnesses to murder cases, and not victims of murder, had secured conviction in the courts in the past.

    Since Mbu resumed in Lagos, he has demonstrated that he has come to intimidate, harass and possibly kill rather than do strict police duties, as his statement had confirmed. As a commissioner of police in Rivers State, he left the ‘Garden City’ as a controversial cop before he was rewarded with a promotion and a new posting to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Obviously, he has not turned a new leaf in Lagos, as he was once reported to have locked-up a ticket officer of the Lekki Toll Concessionaire Company for daring to ask his convoy to pay toll at its gate. What impunity!

    We consider as a sad commentary that the Inspector-General of Police has not deemed it necessary to call Mbu to order. The truth is that the likes of Mbu should not even be in the force because he and his ilk constitute a serious threat to the society.

  • Controversial Joseph Mbu redeployed to Lagos

    … 27 other AIGs also affected

    The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Sulieman Abba, has redeployed 28 Assistant Inspectors General of Police to various departments, zonal commands and formations of the Force across the country.

    The IGP explained that their redeployment is because of recent promotions of some senior officers and vacancies caused by retirement.

    Amongst those affected by the posting is AIG Mbu Joseph Mbu who has been posted from Zone 7, Abuja to Zone 2, Lagos.

    This development is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by the Force Spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu.

    Abba while charging the officers to be more service-oriented in the discharge of their constitutional responsibilities, urged the public to also partner closely with the force in its determination to ensure improved security of Nigeria.

    The officers whose redeployment takes immediate effect are – Tambari Y. Muhammed, Mohammed Abubakar, Aderenle Shinaba, Musa A. Daura, Johnson A Ogunsakin, Patrick D. Dokumor, Christopher T. Dega, Usman Akila Gwarry and Bala A Haassan.

    Others are – Ikemefuna R. Okoye, Mohammed J. Gana, Sule Mamman, Adisa B. Bolanta, Edgar Tam Nanakumo, Sabo Ringim Ibrahim, Wilfred Eje Obute, Kalafite Helen Adeyemi, Ibrahim Maishanu, Jubrin Olawale Adeniji, Lawal Tanko, Ballah Magaji Nasarawa, Yahaya Garba Ardo, Buhari Tanko, Olufemi A. Adenaike, Umaru Abubakar Manko, Irimiya F. Yerima and Mark Adamu Idakwo.

    Meanwhile, the Police Service Commission has also approved the promotion of Commissioner of Police, Adenike Fehintola Abuwa to the rank of AIG.