Opinion: Enugu is now a chicken republic

by Nwobodo Chidiebere

What started as a beer parlour gossip, has finally ridiculed Enugu State as the biggest joke of 21st century! The impeachment of Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi did not come as a surprise to people like us, who are familiar with the happenings in the Coal City state, where impunity is riding on the back of mediocrity to suppress justice.

When Mr. Onyebuchi was, “accused of running an illegal poultry in his official residence, thus constituting an offence according to a resolution of the House, and also refusing to represent Governor Sullivan Chime, at official functions, in spite of a directive from the governor”. It sounded like market women gossip, but I knew that Gov. Chime and his co-travellers had ran out of ideas on how to clip the ‘growing wings’ of Onyebuchi—his ex-deputy governor.

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 I read the so-called allegation against Onyebuchi over, and over again, and kept wondering what has punctured the conscience of Enugu State House of Assembly members, who have allowed their offices to be used like cheap pawns in political chess game going on in the state.

Someone should provide answers to the following mindboggling and thought-provoking questions raging in the minds of Nigerians: did Mr. Onyebuchi commit any impeachable offence? Does poultry stink worse than a pigsty? Is “Agric Unit’’ not part of the commissioner for Agriculture’s purview? Is it that Enugu ‘lawbreakers’ are so idle and hungry that they don’t know what to do again? Why has discipline eluded most of these politicians in Enugu? They fall for anything and stand for nothing. Can’t conscience direct our thinking rather than money? Is this what democracy has to offer Nigerians? ‘He did not represent the governor’ and ‘He’s rearing chickens? This is baseless and thoughtless impeachment!

These Enugu ‘lawbreakers’ are the most shameless chicken politicians of our time! This set of ‘lawbreakers’, who have been ravaged by poverty of the mind and moral bankruptcy, should be disowned and quarantined like Ebola victims to avoid infecting the neighboring states with this chicken-impeachment-virus.

These Enugu ‘lawbreakers’ are the most shameless chicken politicians of our time! This set of ‘lawbreakers’, who have been ravaged by poverty of the mind and moral bankruptcy, should be disowned and quarantined like Ebola victims to avoid infecting the nneighbouringstates with this chicken-impeachment-virus. I have no words for the kangaroo panel that was set up to try this innocent man, all because of politics of stomach infrastructure going on in the coal city state. Posterity will definitely pay everyone!

Are there no courageous people in Enugu state? Where are the elder statesmen in Enugu? Will an elder sit in the house, and watch a goat being strangulated by a rope? Does this shameful act portray Enugu as a state of cowards and hungry political jobbers? Is it not time for Enugu people to rise up against this impunity and injustice being propelled by Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo—the Chief of Staff to the draconian governor? This is the right time for Enugu indigenes to show the kind of class they are by out-right rejection of this chicken impeachment; not for the sake of Onyebuchi alone but justice, because an injustice done anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. There is a time when silence is not golden!

Imagine, the people who are caught embezzling money, did not get impeached, the governor who was away for nearly six months, without properly handing over to his erstwhile deputy, coupled with the fact that he detained and assaulted his wife is not guilty of impeachment, but a poor deputy governor who was rearing chicken to take care of his family, was impeached for promoting agriculture, which is one of the agendas of the state government. What a travesty of justice! What a shame to Enugu state politics!

This should be a good storyline on CNN to ridicule us since we—the people of Enugu state have become so stupid and gullible!

The entire State Assembly complex should be converted to a poultry farm to enable the legislators concentrate more on chicken business, while Onyebuchi will serve as a Special Adviser on chicken-rearing now that they have made him jobless.

Lawmakers are supposed to be intelligent people but corruption and stomach agenda will never allow their brains to function as designed by God. Only God knows how much of tax payer’s money was used to facilitate this despicable act. This is not a big shame to Enugu State alone; but a big shame to the entire country and democracy.

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Comments (2)

  1. Sunday was a supporter of ike Ekweremadu, so sullivan has political war with ike. Once you associate with ike, Sullivan will hate you. So ike Ekweremadu should get FG job for sunday.

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