Mbu’s order to policemen to kill barbaric, lawless – APC

The All Progressives Congress has described the
Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of
Zone 2 Command, Joseph Mbu, as a lawless and
barbaric policeman, who should urgently be
cautioned by his boss before he starts "another
around of his trade-mark nihilism in his new
posting."
In a statement in Lagos on Saturday by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
said Mbu's actions since he was posted to Lagos had
neither dignified the police as an institution nor
portrayed him as a well-trained law enforcement
agent.
It said the temperament, comportment, utterances
and actions of Mbu, as a very senior police officer,
were capable of inciting mass killings, violence and
anarchy.
APC added, "Since his posting to the Zone 2
Command, this contumacious policeman has
exhibited an egregious act of lawlessness by barging
through the Lekki Toll Plaza without paying toll and
then ordering the arrest of policemen and workers at
the Plaza. Is it not an irony that a man, who is trained
to enforce the law, is the same, who is breaking the
law?
"But that action, as bad as it was, pales into
insignificance when compared to his most recent
statement in which he was basically inciting the
police against the citizenry and encouraging the
killing of civilians. It is sheer irresponsibility for a
senior policeman to say that for every policeman,
who is killed during the election, he will kill 20
civilians.
"Lest we are misunderstood, our party will never
condone the killing of police personnel or of any law
enforcement agent for whatever reason, just as we
will not condone the killing of any innocent Nigerian.
If a senior police officer does not know how to
convey to his officers and men that they should
protect themselves while also avoiding extra-judicial
killing of any citizen, then the funds spent in training
him have been wasted."
The party said such language as 'fire-for-fire' , 'If one
of my men is killed, I shall kill twenty of them' or 'you
have the power to stop the Governor' is
inappropriate, inciting and barbaric, especially under
a democratic dispensation, and most unbecoming of
a senior law enforcement agent.
APC said Mbu should be held solely responsible for
any violence or killing of innocent citizens before,
during and after the elections in the area under his
command.