The Enugu State House
of Assembly has removed the state’s Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi, from
office.
The Assembly voted
Tuesday morning to sack Mr. Onyebuchi from office.
Details of the
impeachment session is still sketchy but the deputy governor’s removal is
believed to have been masterminded by Governor Sullivan Chime.
The Assembly accused
Mr. Onyebuchi of operating a commercial poultry at his
official residence and of disobeying Governor Chime, charges that, under
the law, do not qualify as impeachment offences.
The impeached deputy governor
had told the impeachment panel set up by the state’s chief judge that Mr. Chime
also operated a piggery at the Government House.
Giving evidence before the
panel last Wednesday, Mr. Onyebuchi said the governor’s poultry was hurriedly
evacuated shortly after the panel commenced sitting.
Mr. Onyebuchi revealed that the
state government had budgeted for the maintenance of the poultry since 2011.
The embattled deputy governor,
who tendered the state’s budget between 2011 and 2014, said funds had always
been provided for the poultry he operated.
He insisted that he did not
commit any offence that should have warranted his impeachment and
that the poultry farms he and the governor operated were there before they
assumed office in 2007.
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