Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana,
has identified officials of the Nigeria Police Force and the Department
of State Security Service as also culpable in the alleged detention of
the wife of the Enugu State Governor, Clara Chime, for four months.
Falana made the allegation at the public
presentation of a book titled ‘Honour for sale’ by Major Debo Bashorun,
in Lagos, on Friday.
He said, “I have discovered that the
police and SSS helped the governor in confining his wife in a room for
four months incommunicado.”
The news of the alleged illegal
detention of the wife of the Governor broke earlier this month with
Falana subsequently saying Clara had requested his intervention in the
matter.
However, following Falana’s open
declaration, Governor Sullivan Chime held a press conference in company
of Clara’s relatives and a doctor said to be treating her, denying the
allegation. Chime claimed he had only kept Clara indoors due to her ill
health.
At the event, Falana, however, condemned
the presence of security operatives at Chime’s press conference,
describing the connivance of the police with the ruling class as a
threat to democracy and rule of law..
He said, “The police officers were also
at the press conference when the governor admitted that he has turned
the government house into a psychiatric ward.”
Prominent lawyer and Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, Prof. Itse Sagay, the widow of late Gani Fawehinmi, Ganiat, and
anti-corruption crusader, Debo Adeniran, among others, have described
the new book as an insightful attempt to unravel the mystery
surrounding the murder of the late publisher of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, via a parcel bomb.
Sagay, who chaired the event, noted that
the author had provided additional insight into the killing of Giwa in
terms of the circumstances and the dramatis personae.
ReplyDeleteThis Falana or whatever he calls himself shoulg do and rest abeg and why can't he go ahead and file the case at court if your really have the evidence and save us this public attention seeking..You dabbled into matrimonial issue and is turning it into a circus
Shut up......speak only when you have facts.
DeleteBeing Gov does not warraant this kind of inhuman treatment, treting her like a criminal abi police and sss no get work fr enugu state but to "babbysit" the gov's wife?
ReplyDeleteTreating u mean. Calm down so u can type good grammar dearie!
DeleteShe should never have married Sullivan, this is just the consequences of greed nd lust for power now she is damaged goods cs no man will marry her since she has been labelled mentally ill.pity
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with clara she was starved of love and anttention and culdn't handle her sister's betrayal by sleeping with her own husbnd, that is just wicked.
ReplyDeleteWhat medical condition requires confinement ??? Well I see gov house is now the latest yaba left.....
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