We've No Feud with Police Force but Mbu – Amaechi

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, at the weekend made a curious appearance at a fundraiser to build the Christian Police Chapel in Port Harcourt, where he shed light on the crisis of confidence that has pitted his administration against the police authorities in the state.

Amaechi, represented by his deputy, Mr. Tele Ikuru, at the occasion to raise N100 million to build the chapel, said his administration had no problem with the police but with the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, whom he has accused of partisanship in the discharge of his official duties.

The state government and Mbu have been at loggerheads since the onset of the political crisis in the state occasioned by the sack of the executive of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to Amaechi.

The crisis took a turn for the worse last Tuesday when the police boss was accused of complicity in an attempt by five renegade members of the 32-member state House of Assembly to remove the Speaker, Hon. Otelemaba Amachree.