PORT HARCOURT – Rivers State House of Assembly, has called for the
immediate redeployment of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu
Joseph Mbu, saying he was an interested party in the political crisis
rocking the state.
Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amaechree, in a
statement, said the House had to postpone its sitting, yesterday,
because the state Police Commissioner suddenly cancelled an approval
requesting police protection for the sitting.
He said they had uncovered an alleged plot by five members of the
House to cause panic and tension if the House had gone ahead with the
sitting, adding that the game plan was for security operatives to start
shooting sporadically and firing teargas to create a picture of a
breakdown of law and order in the Assembly.
Otelemaba explained that the decision to further adjourn sitting sine die was to protect lives and property in the state.
He said: “Ironically, a request by the House of Assembly for
deployment of Police operatives to guard and protect the Assembly
complex earlier approved was unceremoniously withdrawn by the
Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command on ‘the orders from above.’
“Consequent upon the above and as your elected representatives,
determined to save the democratic structures in the state, lives and
property, we are aware of plans to stall the sittings of the House
through disruptive and violent acts by five members of the House
intended to culminate into sporadic shootings and firing of tear gas
canisters by security agencies outside the chambers under the guise of
maintaining law and order.
“We are being inundated with threats of arrests, assassinations, and
violence on the persons of the Speaker and 26 members of the Assembly.
The name of the presidency had been used by those five members of the
House in their unguarded utterances and display of intimidation,
therefore, the sitting is postponed.”
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