Gov. Chime Attempts To Eject Wife From State House "Detention"

caption: Enugu First Lady, Clara Chime -PhotoCredit: Punch Newspaper

By SaharaReporters, New York

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State today attempted to eject his wife, Clara Chime, from her State House quarters over her decision to go public about his illegal detention of her.

In effect, Mrs. Chime would have regained the freedom she has been denied for months, and for which she has campaigned publicly in the past week.

The governor’s action followed a marathon meeting the governor held with Clara’s Igwe family, during which the governor decided to let her leave the government house.

However, insiders say Mrs. Chime said she would prefer to travel out, preferably to the United Kingdom, to take care of herself and then be allowed to return to her matrimonial home upon completion of her trip.

Sources at the meeting said the governor turned down that offer, instead telling the First Lady to pack out immediately.

Security sources said that her refusal to leave immediately led to an attempt to forcefully eject her from the government house.

Following Mrs. Chime’s refusal to leave unceremoniously, the governor relented and called for another emergency meeting of the family. The meeting was still ongoing as at the time of filing this report.

On Friday, Governor Chime met with a delegation from the National Human Rights Commission for several hours to explain the reason for the confinement of the First Lady to a section of Government House.

Mrs. Chime's public outcry was first reported by SaharaReporters last week. In a letter, she complained she had been confined within Government House and had suffered depression. She subsequently also disclosed the harsh circumstances of her detention, including being threatened by the governor whenever she asked permission to leave.

Mrs. Chime accuses NHRC of accepting a bribe from Governor Chime to write misleading report about her illegal detention in Government House

caption: Clara Chime

By SaharaReporters, New York

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report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) about its investigation of her complaint, and asked for it to be withdrawn.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 yesterday 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 previous response , 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.

Would you share a bath with eels?....New exfoliating treatment that involves bathing in a tank of eels

Many people are prepared to go to increasingly extreme lengths to enhance their looks.

But the latest beauty fad, involving bathing in a tank of eels in order to exfoliate the skin, has been condemned by health inspectors as extremely dangerous.

The new treatment is just another in a bewildering array of beauty treatments currently making their way into spas and beauty salons, which experts say are often not regulated as they should be.





'Extremely dangerous': The latest beauty fad involves bathing in a tank of eels in order to exfoliate the skin



The technique, imported from China, involves immersing the full body into a bath of pencil-long eels – an extension of the fish pedicures that were popular in 2011.

Wendy Nixon, a health and safety consultant, last week told a conference hosted by the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health (CIEH), the body which represents health inspectors, that there were problems with the procedure, especially for those wearing loose-fitting swimwear.


‘In one case a stray eel found its way through the man’s genitals and into his kidney, and he ended up needing a three-hour operation,’ Nixon told the conference. ‘This is the sort of procedure that is coming your way.’

The alarming example is reportedly that of Zhang Nan, a 56-year-old man from Hubei province in China.

‘I climbed into the bath and I could feel the eels nibbling my body,’ Mr Nan said shortly after the incident two years ago.

 

'In one case, a stray eel found its way through the man's genitals and into his kidney'

 

- Wendy Nixon

‘But then suddenly I felt a severe pain and realised a small eel had gone into the end of my penis.’

A spokesman for the institute said that it was vital that any new beauty treatment was subjected to proper scrutiny by health professionals.

‘The CIEH is concerned when this or any new beauty treatment is being offered without a proper risk assessment to consider its impact on the public or the animals involved.

Without such a risk assessment, it is not possible to provide official guidance or advice that can help inform the public and health professionals.’

The beauty industry is beginning to turn its back on fish pedicures after customers raised concerns about the ethical treatment of animals.




Risk: Health experts have warned that 'fish spa pedicures' could spread diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C




However, the treatments are still being offered in some spas and at festivals and fairgrounds, according to the CIEH journal, Environmental Health News.

‘I have been to big events for the leisure industry and they [the treatments] are working their way into gyms and these sorts of places, so keep an eye out for those,’ Nixon warned.

‘Anyone involved in these sorts of treatment should have at least a very minimum national occupational standard at a level-two pedicure unit.’




Worry: Another growing concern is the many teeth-whitening procedures available on the market



In 2011 health experts warned that ‘fish spa pedicures’ – where tiny fish nibble dead skin away from customers’ feet - could spread diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C.

The government’s Health Protection Agency said those with diabetes, psoriasis or a weak immune system are particularly vulnerable and should not take part in the beauty craze at all.

But with Britons spending more than £5billion a year on beauty and grooming services at more than 15,000 beauty salons, regulating the industry and ensuring minimum training standards is proving a constant battle for inspectors.

Another growing concern is the many teeth-whitening procedures available on the market.

Beauty therapists are being sold expensive training courses but are not told the procedures can be performed only by dentists or dental hygienists.

Inspectors are also worried about the increasing use of hair-straightening products imported into the UK that have been found to contain dangerous levels of formaldehyde – a cancer-causing chemical.

Nixon said she knew of companies that had concealed the formaldehyde content in their products by referring to it as formalin or methylene glycol on their labels.




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Cossy Orjiakor insures boobs for a whooping N256m

Nollywood actress, Cossy Orjiakor who has gained a sensational sex identity is currently a happy woman as she is set to hit another gold mine with her endowment.

The actress was reported to have agreed to a deal to insure her bloated mammary glands for a whooping $1.6million amounting to N256million.

The deal according to source, was introduced to her by an American friend who also dragged Enhanced Silicon Inc. responsible for insuring breasts of famous foreign celebrities into the deal. The company, which insured the bosóms of Pamela Anderson and Dolly Parton agreed to the deal just before Cossy’s recent birthday bash, where she displayed her endowments for the world to see. The booby actress will be travelling to Los Angeles in two weeks to sign on the dotted lines. “I specifically asked for $1.6 million,” Cossy was quoted as saying.

*Cossy

As part of the deal awaiting her signature, there will be limits on how many men and women who would touch her bósoms each month. Also, the bósoms have all been given names and must now be treated as people in future movie roles. That means that Enhanced Silicon Inc. will determine how much a movie producer will pay each bosóm for an appearance in a movie. “The downside of the deal is that I may get dressed’, Cossy added.

Cossy seems pretty excited about the deal as sources maintained that each of the endowment will be named and anyone who prefers to touch will have to pay for it just as Enhanced Silicon Inc. will henceforth, decide the amount producers will pay per breast, for appearance in a movie.





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Gang tortured and raped African migrants whose boat sank off Italian island, Lampedusa, with the loss of more than 360 lives

The tragedy has not stopped migrants boarding unseaworthy boats in the hope of reaching Europe

Migrant tragedy

People traffickers tortured and raped African migrants whose boat later sank off Lampedusa with the loss of more than 360 lives, Italian police say.

The police have arrested a Somali man on Lampedusa accused of committing crimes with the armed gang.

Most of the victims on 3 October were Eritreans and Somalis. Their fishing boat capsized near Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island off North Africa.

The migrants each paid thousands of dollars to the gang, police said.

The gang moves people across the Sahara to Libya, where they are detained in a camp until they pay at least $3,000 (£1,866), police said.

The migrants have told the police that torture and rape goes on at the camp, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports from Rome.

Once the migrants make their payment, they are handed on to another organisation which - in return for more money - arranges a boat journey to Europe.


Motives unclear

The alleged captain of the Lampedusa boat, a Tunisian man named Khaled Bensalam, is being held in Sicily.

The 24-year-old Somali suspect was arrested after arriving on Lampedusa on 25 October with a group of migrants.

As he entered a migrant reception centre, he was attacked by some survivors of the disaster, police said. There were 155 survivors of the tragedy.

The migrants said they recognised him as one of the leaders of the group that had arranged their long and disastrous journey. He is now facing charges relating to kidnapping, sexual violence and people smuggling.

It is not yet clear why the suspect made the journey to Italy and put himself at risk of being identified by migrants that he allegedly mistreated. But the police say he might have been fleeing tensions within his people-smuggling network.

Another theory is that he may have sought to consolidate links with criminal partners in Italy. Or he might have simply decided that he too wanted to make a new life in Europe, our correspondent says.

Italian media say the Somali man's arrest followed investigations by Sicilian police and anti-Mafia police based in Rome. He is now being questioned in Sicily.


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