FOLLOWING the indictment of the Police Commissioner Joseph Mbu by the senate committee on state and
local government affairs in Rivers State on Thursday, police Inspector-General Mohammed Abubakar has been ordered to effect his redeployment.
A senate committee chaired by Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya (ANPP, Kano), was on 10 July mandated by the Senate to visit Rivers and investigate the remote and immediate causes of the crisis in the state House of Assembly.
Gaya yesterday submitted the report to the senate in plenary session including video recordings of their proceedings and submissions made by different parties.
Contents of the report were not made available to the public, but a sources reveal that the commissioner was criticized in the report for his role in the violence at the state assembly in which some lawmakers were injured.
According to the sources, the panel condemned the action of Mr. Mbu, who they accused of not leaving up to expectation, and called for his withdrawal from the state.
The investigation followed a motion sponsored by Senator Magnus Abe (PDP, Rivers), who raised a point of order citing matters of personal explanation drawing the attention of his colleagues to the fracas in the state assembly
Gaya and his committee had held hearings between 11 and 14 July in Port Harcourt where it received submissions from the warring factions.
The Senate is scheduled to consider the report on Friday.