Mbu Repeats His Men Will Kill

 

The controversial assistant inspector general of police in charge of zone 2, Lagos, Joseph Mbu, has insisted that policemen under his command will kill in self-defence if there is pre- or post-election violence.

Mbu said there is no big deal in the number of people his men might kill.

Mbu added that since police officers were also human beings, they should be ready to take reprisals on any violent group(s) that might attack them or innocent citizens.

Mbu stated this during the inauguration of the Olorunsogo II Power Station by incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

The journalists had asked Mbu to explain the provocative comment credited to him that 20 civilians would be killed for every policeman.

Mbu answered: “If one of my men is killed, I shall kill 20 of them, but don’t shoot first. If they shoot you, shoot back in self-defence. Anybody who fires you, fire him back in self-defence.”
On Friday Mbu said the media accounts were mischievous and opposed to what he had said in Abeokuta.

He also said that he anticipated arresting the journalists who wrote the reports to show evidence that he had indeed said what was reported.

Meanwhile, Mbu repeated the media account he had tried to dismiss.

He said: “I still stand by what I said. And what I said is very clear: that if any violent group attacks my policemen, my policemen should attack them violently.

“If any violent group attacks a law-abiding citizen in a bid to cause injury or cause harm, the police should repel and save that law-abiding citizen because we have the powers to do so.

“If hoodlums or touts decide to be lawless; carrying knives, carrying illegal firearms and shooting at my policemen, if they shoot at my policemen and they are a hundred or 200, my policemen will not be looking at them. They will reply back in self-defence.

“The number I kill is immaterial because a policeman is also a human being.”

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