My men’ll arrest unruly govs during election — Mbu

The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone
2, Joseph Mbu, has warned that his men will arrest
any governor or politician with unruly attitude during
the forthcoming elections.
Mbu said this on Thursday in Abeokuta, Ogun State,
during his official visit to the Ogun State police
command headquarters, Eleweran.
He ordered the men of the command, who would be on
electoral duty, to arrest promptly anyone caught with
arms near the voting centres.
He said, “I am here to encourage, support and advice
you because we have a critical part to play in the
forthcoming elections.
“Our actions and activities will go a long way to
decide on this election, so, I have come to tell you
that we must remain impartial in ensuring free, fair,
peaceful and violent-free polls.
“As far as the law is concerned, we are not going to
respect anybody and whoever is coming to the booth
should vote and leave peacefully.
“Anyone who comes there to campaign even if it is the
chief executive of the state, a constable at that
polling booth would stop him.”
Mbu, who debunked the notion that he was sent to the
zone to do an hatchet job in the forthcoming
elections, said he had been commissioner in Oyo, Ekiti
and Rivers states as well as in the Federal Capital
Territory. He said his current posting as the Assistant
Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 7, was
not in any way different from his previous assignments.
He said, “I am here to make sure everywhere is calm; I
am not here at Zone 2 only for elections. The Zone
2 must not just fail during the elections. I am here to
make sure everything goes on peacefully, but the
police will arrest anybody that commits any electoral
offences.
“Anybody found with arms would be arrested by the
police and anyone that cannot be arrested; we will
recover the arms by force.
“No politician or any of their followers must shoot at
any policeman; if you shoot at any policeman, my
policemen would shoot back in self defence.
“Our duty is to make sure that the elections are
conducted freely, fairly and peacefully and violence-
free. There must be a code of conduct that you have
to uphold to make sure that we actualise our goals.”