CHIME LEAVES FOR ABROAD AGAIN

Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime has reportedly left the country again, three weeks after he returned to the country from a controversial vacation in London that lasted over four month.

Sources in Enugu Government House disclosed to Sunday Independent at the weekend that Chime left the country on Thursday shortly after the decoration of his Aide De Camp (ADC), Arthur Amobi who was recently elevated by the Nigerian Police from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP). Chime decorated his ADC, assisted by the new Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr. Tonye Ebitubituwa.

Sunday Independent gathered that he left the state for a trip abroad immediately after the decoration ceremony.

Our sources disclosed that it was as a result of the governor’s absence that the Secretary to the State Government, Amechi Okolo received a high powered delegation of Senate Committee investigating the Ezu River floating corpses, on Thursday.

One of the senators on the delegation told Sunday Independent that they were told the governor was yet to fully resume work while his Deputy, Sunday Onyebuchi was away from the state.

Efforts by this newspaper to ascertain the latest movement of the governor yielded no fruits at press time as state government officials contacted declined to make comments, even on condition of anonymity.

It could be recalled that Chime was away from the country for four months under controversial circumstances, from mid-September 2012 to first week of February 2013 when he returned to Enugu state.

During the period of his absence, the media were awash with all kinds of speculations about his ill health, causing serious anxiety in the state.

Shortly after his return to the country in early February, Chime opened up on his controversial vacation abroad, saying he stayed about four months and half in London receiving treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer, popularly known as cancer of the nose. He said his medical sojourn to London was very successful as there was no longer a trace of cancer in him.

Describing the barrage of negative media reports on his prolonged absence as “unfortunate”, Chime explained that he decided to speak, may be to clear the air, in the interest of the people because he noticed that that generated a lot of interest, and also attempt to address some of the issues that he felt should be addressed in the sense that some bothered on constitutionality, and others on morality.

Chime revealed that he was diagnosed of the disease sometime between late August and early September last year when he veered off from a trip of the Governors Forum to Germany for his medicals in London.

Source: Daily Independent