They Are Lying Against Me –– Governor Chime's Wife Cries Out

Wife of the Enugu State

Governor, Sullivan Chime,

Clara, has cried out that

the report of the National

Human Rights

Commission on her

incarceration by her

husband, Governor

Sullivan Chime is not the

whole truth as it should be

told to the Nigerian public.

Clara said in fact the

report was set to damage

her reputation...

This was contained in a

letter of complaint she

wrote to her lawyer, Mr.

Femi Falana, SAN. The

NHRC had on Friday

released a preliminary

report on its investigations

into Clara’s complaints of

rights abuse.

Speaking on the report,

the Executive Secretary of

the NHRC, Prof. Bem

Angwe, said the bone of

contention between Chime

and his wife was a

disagreement over the

procedure for the

treatment of her

occasional hallucinations

and depression.

But Clara said she never

told them about any

"hallucinations". In her

letter, she said, “I am very

disappointed to read what

has been narrated by the

National Human Rights

Commission. Apart from

the fact that the

information was largely

false, it showed lack of

sensitivity in publishing

sensitive medical detail.

“This has the effect of

tarnishing and damaging

my reputation. It is as

though the commission

set out to ridicule me. I

made it clear to them that

I had a nervous

breakdown and found it

inexplicable as to how

hallucinations featured as

part of my symptoms.

“It is important to make

this clear, so that the

public should be made

aware of this and that the

Commission should

recognise part of her

ethos in protecting human

dignity. It has been

suggested by some

quarters that the

Commission appears

biased already because of

the profile of the person

whose reputation is at

stake.

“I want to believe that the

Commission would

approach my case with

open mind and in

particular recognise me as

a victim of crime . I hope

that common sense would

prevail and that the

Commission should now

retract the damaging

publication and stop

stigmatising me.”

I thought Governor Chime

had said a neuro-

psychiatric doctor, Dr

Aham Agumoh was

around to take care of his

wife? What is really

going? Is this be a case

of cover up and counter

cover up? Too many

questions.