The dialogue between the chairman of the Senate committee and Mbu went thus:
Igwe: "Are you prepared to throw in the towel as the commissioner of police considering the condemnation that has trailed this incident and repeated calls for you to leave the state."
Mbu: "I have no reason to throw in the towel as a police officer. I have been investigated by the Police High Command and the Police Service Commission, which are the two regulatory bodies for the police force and I have not been found wanting. So, there is no reason for me to resign from the police force if that is what you mean."
Igwe: How would you describe your relationship with Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi?
Mbu: "Our working relationship is cordial. We exchange text messages frequently on the security situation in the state. We speak to one another anytime there is need for us to do so.
Igwe: Senator Abe confided in me that the Save Rivers Movement applied for a permit for the rally but you turned it down. Why?
Mbu: I turned down their request for a permit to converge at the venue of the proposed rally because on the two occasions they applied for police permit they sold us a dummy. They applied for a permit to organize a welfare empowerment at the Liberation Stadium at Elekahia, in Port Harcourt, and I granted it because I believed what they said they wanted to do.
Any person in the position of authority should support welfare programmes designed to help the poor, the sick and the under -privileged. But what happened? We in the command were surprised when we realized it was an APC declaration rally."
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