hehehe..This man don show again...2015 election sha...The Assistant Inspector-General of Police
in charge of Zone 2, Lagos, Mr. Joseph Mbu, has said that there is no
big deal in the number of people policemen under his command can kill in
self-defence.
He said since policemen were also human
beings, they should be ready to take revenge on any violent group(s)
that might attack them or other innocent citizens.
Mbu spoke with some journalists in
Olorunsogo, Ogun State, during the inauguration of the Olorunsogo II
Power Station by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The
journalists had approached the AIG, who led policemen to provide
security for the President at the event, to clarify the controversial
statement credited to him that 20 civilians would be hacked down for
every policeman killed.
“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,” Mbu
had been quoted in the media to have told his men at the Ogun State
Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, during a recent visit.
Mbu on Friday said the media account was mischievous and contrary to what he said in Abeokuta.
He also said that he contemplated
arresting the journalists who wrote the reports to show proof that he
indeed said what was reported.
Curiously, however, Mbu restated the media account he had tried to debunk.
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.”
When asked if his strategy of
fire-for-fire is the best way to handle the situation, Mbu answered,
“Which other way do you think you can handle it? You will shoot at the
police. Is it not when the person is alive that he is coming to give
evidence? How will somebody who is violently attacking others be
stopped; how are you going to stop him? Are you going to use your hands?
You must repel him using a stronger force.”
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