Send Rivers police commissioner to fight Boko Haram – Soyinka tells Jonathan

The crisis in Rivers has been analyzed by Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka and he puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the state police commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu.Prof. Soyinka also blamed President Goodluck Jonathan and accused him of “looking elsewhere for the smoke in the plane” when “the fire is right on his own roof at Aso Villa”.The Nobel Laureate also suggested that since Commissioner Mbu continues to show extreme bravado in his defiance of the state government, he should be sent to Maiduguri, where such bravado is needed to combat Boko Haram.The Nation reports:The eminent writer said the President should transfer the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to fight the Boko Haram menace.Soyinka spoke in Osogbo on Wednesday during the celebration of the late African icon, Nelson Mandela, at the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) in the Osun State capital.He said the likes of CP Mbu is not required in peaceful states like Rivers, Osun and Lagos, adding that “people who are so tough, so unbeatable and untouchable should be sent to Maiduguri to go and confront the greatest menace the country is facing now” (the Boko Haram).“Since Mbu is such a tough cop that is so powerful and mighty that he can steamroll over the democratic process of this nation and to show how tough he is, I recommend to Jonathan that he should be sent to Maiduguri to go and show his powers there with Boko Haram”, he said.