Group seeks Mbu’s dismissal for abuse of power

A human  rights group, the Doing Democracy Movement, has called for the dismissal of the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 7, Abuja, Mr. Joseph Mbu, for an alleged abuse of power.The group’s call is coming on the heels of the arrest of a journalist with the African Independent Television, Mr. Amaechi Anakwue, on Mbu’s directive.
Anakwue, who was arrested and charged to court for describing Mbu as ‘controversial’ in his report, was later discharged.

But the DDM Convener, Mr. Anyakwee Nsirimovu, who recalled the role Mbu played in Rivers State as a commissioner of police and the Bring-Back-Our-Girls crusade in Abuja, said Nigerians should be united in ensuring that Mbu had no place in a civilised policing in Nigeria.
Nsimovu, who spoke in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday, expressed the need for social forces in Nigeria to resist the latest action of Mbu.
He said, “DDM, therefore, calls on all social forces in Nigeria and Nigerians of all shades of opinion to see the ultimate hazard in discouraging thought, expression, hope and imagination as exemplified in Mbu’s latest act of impunity; as a fundamental threat that must be resisted if we must remain free and our government valuable.
“The critical danger in this, is that the  fear that the state is encouraging AIG Mbu to inflict,  breeds  repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; and that the part of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
“To void citizens from blowing off steam is to quicken the explosion of society. Collectively therefore, we should be  united upon insisting that an omnipotent AIG Mbu has no place in civilised policing in Nigeria, therefore, should be dismissed forthwith.”