Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, of mingling with criminals within the state.
Amaechi, who spoke on the maiden version of Rivers International Fashion Week in Port Harcourt on Sunday, said the event had worsened the safety scenario within the state.
The governor defined that people who orchestrated kidnapping, killings, rape and armed theft within the state in 2007, had been combating exhausting to return again to energy within the state.
Amaechi also said that the state wouldn't enable the present commissioner of police within the state to take the state again to 2007 when crime was at it highest degree in Rivers.
He recalled that the state authorities was in a position to battle crime from 2007 with the assist of a number of police commissioners that got here to serve within the state, including that solely Mbu had gone opposite to his (Mbu) operate of securing lives and property.
The governor defined that the individuals wouldn't enable these stealing the state’s sources to return again, including that his administration was dedicated to defending the state’s sources.
"Mbu is mingling with criminals, however irrespective of the variety of police commissioners they ship right here, we won't enable the state to be taken over by criminals."
"We have been in a position to battle crime previously and we chased criminals away from the state with the assist of police commissioners who got here to serve within the state at the moment."
"But solely Mbu has refused to assist us in combating crime. Those who stole the sources of the state are attempting to return again, the federal government with the individuals of the state won't enable them," he said.
However, efforts made to succeed in the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Angela Agabe, to react to Amaechi assertion, was not profitable as she couldn't reply to a number of calls put throughout to her.
This additional fuelled speculations that the PPRO had been eliminated over the alleged shoddy method she dealt with the story of the discharge of the kidnapped Archbishop Ignatius Kattey.
The clergyman had said that the police weren't chargeable for his launch opposite to what Agabe informed the press.