Nigeria's main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), today attacked Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2 Command, Joseph Mbu, describing him as a lawless and barbaric policeman, who should be cautioned by his boss before he starts what it termed "another round of his trade-mark nihilism in his new posting."
The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, maintained that the AIG's actions from the day he was posted to Lagos had neither dignified the police as an institution nor portrayed him as a well-trained law enforcement agent.
Mohammed further argued that the temperament, comportment, utterances and actions of Mbu, were capable of inciting mass killings, violence and anarchy.
According to the party, "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 opposition APC therefore insisted that 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.
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