Update on Rivers: Lawmakers Give Jonathan 2-Week Ultimatum To Sack IG and CP Mbu

The House of Reps on Tuesday issued a two-week ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, and the controversial Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu.

“Recent developments in some parts of the country concerning civil liberties and the safety of lives and properties of citizens are a matter for serious concern. 

“The two incidences in Rivers State, the one in Ogun State and the other in Borno State, bear all the trappings of impunity which must be eschewed at all cost if we hope to continue to deepen our democracy."

The House took the decision during a session after unanimously adopting a motion by Hon. Aliyu Madaki (APC-Kano). Madaki, who raised his motion under Matters of Urgent National Importance, asked the House to issue a two-week ultimatum to the President to sack the police chief and his commissioner.

He said with the alleged growing impunity of the commissioner and the curious silence of the IG, it was clear that they were taking sides with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the government of Rivers State headed by Rotimi Amaechi.

Trouble in Rivers as Policemen Shoot Assembly Members away from the house complex

Crisis again broke out in the Rivers State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt on Thursday as the police on the orders from above disrupted the sitting of the state House by looking down the Assembly complex when the lawmakers tried to resume their lawful duties.

The 25 lawmakers, in the absence of the speaker, then decided to sit with the deputy speaker presiding but men of the Nigerian Police fired live bullets at the lawmakers live in peoples presence...

The actions of the police, according sources is because majority of the men are loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the Presidency don't want Amaechi's loyalists to head the house.

As at the time of reporting, there is chaos in the area and I hear some people have been injured by the police

Police Stray bullet kills scrap dealer, groups demands justice.

Onyeogaziri

A stray bullet from the gun of a policeman attached to the Rivers State Police Command has killed a scrap dealer, Mr. Chima Onyeogaziri, at Eleme Junction in Port Harcourt.