Impeached Enugu Deputy Gov Rejects Redeployment

Indications emerged that the impeached deputy governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, would not accept his redeployment to the state civil service by Governor Sullivan Chime. The former deputy governor was an employee of the Enugu State Civil Service before he ventured into politics after rising to the rank of a permanent secretary. But he was demoted to the rank of a deputy director in his redeployment, which was confirmed by the Enugu State Government on Monday. A source, an aide, who did not wish to be named, described the redeployment as a joke. The source said:

“The entire idea of redeployment is a joke – Onyebuchi had already risen far above the rank of a deputy director which he has been designated in the purported redeployment to the state civil service. He is not taking up the redeployment – he will just ignore it – he had already made that clear. In fact the question of taking up such a posting does not even arise because the governor has no powers to redeploy him since he already resigned his appointment in the service before he went into politics. He is not an employee of the state government, the redeployment is of no consequence to Onyebuchi at all. It is simply an act of mischief, somebody is trying to be mischievous here.”