Rivers CP, Joseph Mbu Is Tough; Should Be Sent To Fight Boko Haram’ – Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, yesterday in Osogbo during the celebration of the late African icon, Nelson Mandela, at the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), took time out to appraise the security situation in the country. Soyinka suggested that for proving time and again that he was such a tough cop, Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph Mbu, should be transferred from Rivers to Borno State to combat the terrorist sect, Boko Haram.

Mbu has been a thorn in the flesh of Governor Amaechi and all who align with him in Rivers State. He was recently slated by civil rights organisations and the larger society for ordering his men to fire ‘rubber’ bullets at a peaceful rally.

“People who are so tough like Mbu, so unbeatable and untouchable, should be sent to Maiduguri to go and confront the greatest menace the country is facing now (the Boko Haram)”, Soyinka suggested.

He continued; “Since Mbu is such a tough cop that is so powerful and mighty that he can steamroll over the democratic process of this nation and to show how tough he is, I recommend to Jonathan that he should be sent to Maiduguri to go and show his powers there with Boko Haram”.


Senator Magnus Abe and Chief of Staff, Government House in Rivers State (Tony Okocha), came off worse from the rubber bullets incident. The Senator is presently recuperating in a London hospital from wounds sustained at the scene of the shooting.

“If Mandela were the head of Nigeria, any policeman or law enforcement officer who fires even a rubber bullet at innocent people – I am not even talking about a senator or politician or opposition – innocent people harmlessly holding a meeting and any officer be it soldier, policeman, vigilante who intrudes in such a meeting with violence using state’s power or the people’s armoury to injure or traumatise the citizens, such an individual would be in jail now, however highly placed”, Soyinka said.

“I want to tell Mbu that one of these days, he would find himself in front of that criminal court and he would go and keep company with Charles Taylor and the killers in Rwanda”, the globally renowned writer warned.