NOPRIN demands Mbu’s sack, calls him a bad influence to junior police officers

The Custodian June 05, 2014

 

The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, has called on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to invoke its disciplinary powers against Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, FCT Police Commissioner, for allegedly subverting Nigeria’s constitution and infringing on the fundamental rights of Nigerians’ freedom of expression.

The group stated this while condemning Mbu’s ban on protests by campaigners, urging the federal government to rescue over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect on April 14.
A statement issued on Wednesday by Okechukwu Nwanguma, NOPRIN National Coordinator, said, Mbu acted “in utter contempt of a subsisting Appeal Court judgment upholding the inalienable constitutional rights of Nigerians to express their opinions through peaceful protests and demonstrations.”

“It is shocking that this self-same Mbu, who perpetrated several acts of illegality, as Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, has been retained in the NPF and only redeployed as CP of the FCT where he has continued with his reckless and unprofessional acts which run contrary to all norms of democratic policing.”
NOPRIN described Mbu as an individual who “represents a rotten egg, and a bad influence to younger, and junior officers in the National Police Force, and should be done away with.”
The group, however, commended the IGP, Mohammed Abubakar, for having disowned Mbu, and pointing out to him that it is beyond his powers to abridge the constitutional rights of Nigerians under any guise.
It called on the PSC to “demonstrate some semblance of responsibility by dismissing Mbu for his numerous acts of misconduct, illegality and subversion of the norms and practices of democratic policing.”