Embattled Rivers State
Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, is expected to appear before the National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC) on October 18 in an investigating meeting to shed
light on his petition over allegations of declining human rights situation in
the state.
Director of
communication of the agency, Muhammad Nasir Ladan, spoke yesterday that the
Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph Mbu, would also be invited to
give vivid account of his side of the story following recent allegations made
by the governor.
Ladan confirmed
receipt of a petition dated October 1 from Amaechi on Sunday over allegations
of worsening human rights situation in Rivers State, stressing that
investigation into the matter has commenced.
Amaechi accused Mbu in
the petition of exercising his duties without recourse to necessary
constitutional and legal standards.
“Rivers State
Commissioner of Police is presently led by Mbu whose pattern of actions and
public utterances are manifestly contrary to basic standards of behaviour for a
person occupying very sensitive office. The constitutional framework for
controlling the security structures of a state, the unique security challenges,
formations networks and infrastructure of Rivers State and the mission
statement of the Nigerian Police – the creation of a safer and more secure
environment conducive to meaningful socio-economic development through crime
prevention and control.
Mbu’s mode of exercising his duties without recourse to
necessary constitutional and legal standards is creating environment rife with
fear, distrust of security of security operatives and public institutions,
strife, impunity, criminal behaviours and brigandage, factors, which were all
implicit in the build-up and escalation of the pre-amnesty Niger Delta crisis.”
Amaechi, therefore,
urged NHRC to “leverage its independence and capabilities to urgently
investigate and ascertain if the current Mbu is still fit and proper to
superintend the police formation of a sensitive state in the country with
complex human rights dynamics leading down to general electioneering period due
to his penchant for compromising democratic practices, structures, institutions
and authorities necessary to secure law and order, good government and guaranty
of the basic human rights.
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