Again, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has blamed the state Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu, for the recent upsurge in insecurity and other criminal activities, including kidnapping, in the state.
The governor, therefore, called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and the Federal Government to immediately transfer Mbu out of the state.
Amaechi made the call when the Chairman of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Governing Board, Chief Gordon Bozimo, led a delegation to pay him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
He said the call for Mbu's transfer became necessary because the commissioner had derailed from his legitimate function of protecting lives and property in the state.
Bozimo had, in his speech, raised concerns on the recent abduction of three corps members and other atrocities meted on NYSC members posted to the state.
The NYSC Board chairman warned that corps members might begin to avoid the state in future if the problems persisted. He said: "Three days ago, three of our corps members were kidnapped.
I feel very worried because if Port Harcourt is not safe, I don't know where people will run to. "So, we are imploring Your Excellency to look at the problems critically and fashion out what can be done to nip the problem in the bud, if not, corps members may begin to avoid Rivers State the way they did to Borno, Yobe and other trouble-ridden states in the North.
"I have the intention of discussing it with the Inspector General of Police when I get to Abuja." Responding, Amaechi said the police commissioner had been shirking in his responsibility of providing security for the citizens of the state but instead had been dabbling into the politics of the state.
He said: "We used to have a wonderful security system through commissioners of police who understood their functions and knew what to do.
"But, when the police in Abuja suddenly withdrew the predecessor of this present commissioner of police and posted the person called Mbu Joseph Mbu here, nothing has been working again.
"Mbu has been sitting with politicians for political reasons and the security system is down and out. Since he came, we have never had peace. We have held security council meeting two or three times. But before Mbu came, we used to hold security meetings two or three times every month.
