Unexplained Absence of Governor Chime: SEG Threatens to Drag Speaker To Court
The Save Enugu Group (SEG) has threatened to drag to court the
Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr. Eugene Odo if within
seven days he fails to make available to it a CERTIFIED TRUE COPY (CTC)
of the letter he claimed was addressed to him by Governor Sullivan Chime
before the governor disappeared from public view.
The governor was said to have proceeded on leave/vacation, but SaharaReporters reported last week that on the contrary, he is in London receiving treatment for cancer.
In a letter today to the Speaker SEG said he had failed to answer the question the group asked in its letter of January 21.
“On the floor of the hallowed chambers of the State Assembly on 22nd January 2013, rather than answer the specific questions we had raised, you inter alia went on a voyage of discovery and manufactured a curious ‘Doctrine of Necessity’ which we never mentioned in our letter and answered the examination you set for yourself,” they said.
The group emphasized that the three-point demand it made in the letter was for the Speaker to make public, or show evidence of having done so, the contents of the letter purportedly served on him by Governor Chime pursuant to section 190 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
“TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that should you not make available to us the CTC of the said letter SEVEN DAYS from the receipt of this notice, we shall be left with no other option but to seek remedies from an appropriate High Court to compel you to do so.
The letter was signed on behalf of SEG by Maxi Okwu Ikenecheoha II, and copied to Acting Governor Sunday Onyebuchi.
Culled from SaharaReporters
The governor was said to have proceeded on leave/vacation, but SaharaReporters reported last week that on the contrary, he is in London receiving treatment for cancer.
In a letter today to the Speaker SEG said he had failed to answer the question the group asked in its letter of January 21.
“On the floor of the hallowed chambers of the State Assembly on 22nd January 2013, rather than answer the specific questions we had raised, you inter alia went on a voyage of discovery and manufactured a curious ‘Doctrine of Necessity’ which we never mentioned in our letter and answered the examination you set for yourself,” they said.
The group emphasized that the three-point demand it made in the letter was for the Speaker to make public, or show evidence of having done so, the contents of the letter purportedly served on him by Governor Chime pursuant to section 190 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
“TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that should you not make available to us the CTC of the said letter SEVEN DAYS from the receipt of this notice, we shall be left with no other option but to seek remedies from an appropriate High Court to compel you to do so.
The letter was signed on behalf of SEG by Maxi Okwu Ikenecheoha II, and copied to Acting Governor Sunday Onyebuchi.
Culled from SaharaReporters
This Chime matter is beginning to take a new dimension. I hope it won't be politicized or used for selfish individual or group political advancement.
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