Clara Chime Tells NHRC To Withdraw Report | Sahara Reporters

Clara Chime, the estranged wife of Enugu
State’s Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu
State, has expressed disappointment about
the report of the National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) about its investigation
of her complaint, and asked for it to be
withdrawn.
“Apart from the fact that the information
was largely false, it showed lack of
sensitivity in publishing sensitive medical
detail,” she said today in a letter to her
lawyer, Femi Falana. “This has the effect of
tarnishing and damaging my reputation. It
is as though the Commission set out to
ridicule me.”
On Friday, the commission, led by its
executive secretary, Bem Angwe, travelled
to the Enugu State Government House to
investigate the alleged forcible detention of
Mrs. Chime. Following the visit, the NHRC
published an interim report on its website
in which it described the issue as a
disagreement between the governor and
his wife “over the procedure for the
treatment of her health challenges, which
border on occasional hallucinations and
depression.”
In the letter to Mr. Falana, she said, “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.”
Noting suggestions that that the
Commission appears biased already
because of the profile of the person whose
reputation is at stake, she said, “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.”
In her first response yesterday, Mrs. Chime
accused members of the commission of
accepting a bribe from Governor Chime to
write the misleading report about her
illegal detention in Government House,
Enugu.
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