Enugu Deputy Gov, explains why he slumped, says Chime has poultry farm

Embattled Enugu Deputy Gover­nor, Sunday Onye­buchi, who slumped on August 13th before an  impeachment panel set up to investigate allegations of gross misconduct and rearing of chickens government has been discharged from the hospital. Mr. Sunday who resumed his testimony yesterday says he had been sick and was taking medication before appearing before the panel on that day…

 “The water was brought and I took it. I told the panel members that I wouldn’t continue, that I was not fit enough. I was rushed out of the court. They took me to a doctor, who confirmed that I had low blood pressure and reported this to the panel, but was turned down.

Surprisingly, the panel in­sisted that I should be brought back the same day at 2 p.m. This made my lawyers to come back at 2 p.m. and presented the doctor’s report and said I would not be fit till this week. My lawyer urged the panel to adjourn till Monday, but the panel insisted that I should be brought back at 9 a.m. the next day, in spite of the report from the medical doctor.

My lawyers came the next day and insisted that I was not fit enough to come and it was at that juncture that the panel insisted that a doctor from the ESUT Teaching Hospi­tal should see me to confirm whether what the other doctor wrote was okay.

The female doctor from ESUT Teaching Hospital came and I submitted myself, she examined me and I believe she did a report and till now the panel has not made the report available, but I believe that I am fit enough to stand trial and that is why I came,” the deputy governor said.

The deputy governor also provided copies of the state government budgets for 2011 to 2014  before the 7-man panel to back his claims that Governor Sullivan Chime also operated poultry and piggery farms at the Gov­ernment House.

Onyebuchi told the panel that he had not committed any offence that could warrant his removal from government by impeachment, noting that the poultry at his official residence and that of the governor were in existence before they came into government in 2007.

The House of Assembly had on July 22 commenced impeachment proceedings against the deputy governor…