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| POLICE AFFAIRS MINISTER, CALEB OLUBOLADE |
The Minister for Police
Affairs, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (rtd), yesterday explained reasons why
the police top hierarchy was yet to re-deploy the Rivers State Commissioner of
Police, Joseph Mbu, who has been mired in incessant controversies as regards
the crisis rocking the oil-rich state, despite the clamour and petition for his
removal.
This is just as the Chairman,
Police Service Commission (PSC), who also doubles as the former Inspector
General of Police, Mike Okiro (rtd), acknowledged the receipt of the complaint
and petition to redeploy Mbu for his alleged partisanship.
The
duo made this disclosure at the unaveiling ceremony of the first completed 200
units of three-bedroom flats at Idimu area of Lagos, belonging to the officers
and men of the police, named Goodluck Jonathan Housing Estate.
Although the minister
admitted that he was in receipt of a petition from the state government written
by the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, against Mbu, he however said due process
must be followed as regards investigation.
Although the Rivers CP is
billed to retire next year, police sources said if found culpable, he might be
forced to retire this year as well as face other disciplinary measures exerted
by the service commission.
But the minister said
although the petition would receive adequate attention because it’s content was
weighty, he however stressed that action could only be taken after detailed
investigation have taken place.
He also said that before any
disciplinary actions would be taken against the CP, the investigators would
have finished and come out with the result or outcome, adding that there was no
room in the force for erring and undisciplined policemen.
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