A pan-Yoruba socio-political and cultural group, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has demanded the immediate redeployment of the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, comprising Ogun and Lagos police commands, Joseph Mbu from the zone.
The group in a letter addressed to the Inspector-General of Police, Secretary to Government of the Federation, Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Police Affairs, the group also demanded that Mr. Mbu, an Assistant Inspector of Police, be disciplined.
“We reckon that the Police Service Commission is vested with the power to ‘dismiss and exercise disciplinary control over persons (other than the Inspector-General of Police) in the Nigeria Police Force,’” the ARG said in the petition signed by Ayo Afolabi, its General Secretary.
“Therefore, we demand, in accordance with the manifest desires of our people, that: 1. AIG Mbu be redeployed from Zone 2 with immediate effect and (2) He should be made to face appropriate disciplinary action (s).”
While Mbu has been tough-talking, his critics said his posting to the Lagos may not be unconnected with the desire of the ruling People’s Democratic Party to wrestle Lagos State from the All Progressives Congress.
They cited the provision of police protection to members of the Oodua People’s Congress who protested in Lagos to demand for the removal of the INEC chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega. The OPC members protested with guns and other weapons in broad daylight.
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