Why does AIG Joseph Mbu have 50 policemen in his cell?

The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Joseph Mbu, is arguably the most popular police officer in the country. And he knows it too. He told media men on Friday that they are responsible for his popularity.

“I wasn’t popular in Rivers State, you made me popular in Rivers State. I was popular in Oyo State, I was popular in Abuja when I was CP of FCT and when I was posted to zone 7. In Rivers State, you people were hearing one side of the story because the other party was richer, you were not hearing my own part of the story. You have not bothered to go to Oyo State to go and ask why I was successful in the state. Why I was named the best CP by the House of Assembly,” he said.

Apart from talking about his popularity, the other thing Mbu was very interested in discussing was how some policemen under his command were not disciplined and how it reflected in the way they dressed. Some of them are now in detention as a result.

Speaking in Abeokuta, shortly after meeting with the officers of the Ogun State Command at Eleweran headquarters on Thursday, Mbu said that a whopping 70 per cent of officers lacked discipline. Those who are being detained by Mbu committed offences ranging from wearing dirty uniforms, bathroom slippers, carrying riffles while wearing mufti, amongst others. He said such conducts are against the codes of conducts.

‪Mr. Mbu, however expressed hope that the detained police officers would change their ways within the next one month.

‪”What I have noticed is that there is much indiscipline amongst the policemen. They dress anyhow, come to Lagos, they are more than 50 in my cell. They dress the way they like, they wear bathroom slippers, they wear mufti and carry riffles, this is not part of the police work. They are in the cell already, they are being punished and I know my men, within the next one month, they will change,” Mr. Mbu said.