Mbu directs me to apply for security matters -Amaechi

The Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, always directs him to write applications to the police command on issues bordering on security.
Amaechi, who described the development as ridiculous, explained that high ranking police officers, who knew about the situation, had expressed anger.
The governor spoke on Tuesday when officers and students of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, paid him a courtesy visit in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Amaechi alleged that senior police officers, who visited the state and lamented the attitude of the state police commissioner, were ordered to return to Abuja.
The governor said, “It may interest you to also know that if I call the commissioner of police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, he will say, ‘Governor, apply’. It is ridiculous. When some high ranking police officers come here and they hear it, they get very angry. But before they get out of here, they will be ordered to come back to Abuja.”
Amaechi attributed the dwindling state’s internally generated revenue to rising insecurity in the state and observed that the recent influx of political thugs into Rivers had heightened the level of insecurity in the state.
He blamed the development on the attitude of desperate politicians ahead of the 2015 election and added that the Rivers IGR would have hit N10bn monthly if not for the security problems that had hindered the operations of companies in the state.
The governor, “If not for the insecurity in the state and if all companies that were here before had remained to operate their business, we would have been generating up to N10bn monthly. Like you know, most of the companies ran to Lagos and some of them came to Port Harcourt and later ran back.
“Things were improving before now with the Army, Police and the State Security Service, which enabled us to arrest the insecurity in the state. But recently, because of the power play at the national level ahead of the 2015 elections, the security of the state has degenerated badly.
“One is wondering whether we should not differentiate between politics of election and politics of leadership because it is also important for you to know the economic interest of the people, and our private interest.”