Mrs. Clara Chime, Her Hidden Handlers and a Naked Dance in the Market Square-By Morris Ngene.

     Chime & Wife Clara before the wahala


One Ambrose Agu sent this into my mail, a few hours back. i think the issue of Clara Chime, and the hubby, Enugu state gov.Chime has been over flogged enough by the media. I think Clara should be left alone to heal from all the pains she has gone through. i also think she has the absolute right to grant interviews about things that concerns her life and well being without being manipulated or used by anybody. and i am not taking her sides, because i am a woman. its just the way things should be. that being said, please proceed to read this letter, written by one Morris Ngene. and i really need you guys to comment on this post. i would love to know your take on the issues going on between Clara and her Hubby Chime.

Mrs. Clara Chime, Her Hidden Handlers and a Naked Dance in the Market Square

 

By Morris Ngene

Enugu, Enugu State

 

 

No sooner than the public had thought that the family matter of the estranged wife of the Enugu State Governor , Mrs. Clara Chime and her husband  had died down, than Mrs. Chime and her hidden handlers decided to re-assault public sensibilities by washing the woman’s dirty linen in public, yet again. Recently Mrs. Clara Chime granted an interview to ChannelsTV on the subject matter of her mental illness alleging that he husband caused it. This decision by Mrs. Clara Chime and her handlers to rehash and reintroduce this private family matter into the public domain again is clearly against good judgment, counterproductive and unfortunate. And while her handlers may have convinced Mrs. Chime that a public rehash of these matters is in her interest, it is all too clear that these unseen hands now using Mrs. Chime as a political tool only care about how much mud they can throw on Governor Chime through the salacious scandal. Clearly, they do not care about Mrs. Chime, and apparently they have nothing to lose by continuing to manipulate Mrs. Chime to keep on making a public spectacle of herself and her illness.

 

Was it really necessary for Mrs. Chime to have granted this recent interview? Personally I do not believe that the interview was necessary as it did not contain any new information. Perhaps other unpublished clips of the interview exist in which she may have said more. But if one were to judge solely from the two published clips of the interview, she said nothing new. The only difference this time is that perhaps for the first time we could see Mrs. Chime, in person, on screen, rehashing some of these issues, live.

 

Mrs. Chime said several things in that interview among which are some matters that I would like to address. The first of such matters is that Mrs. Chime claimed to be unaware as to why her husband could have asserted (as a matter of fact) that she (Mrs. Chime) has a mental problem. She made this claim apparently to insinuate that her husband had deliberately lied against her and inaccurately portrayed her as mentally ill. But ironically in the same breath, in the same interview, Mrs. Chime herself confirmed to the whole world that she suffers from depression, but yet claimed not to have a mental problem.

 

So is depression not a mental problem, a mental illness, a mental disorder?  From the little research I did on that subject matter I learned the following. According to the UK Mental Health Foundation (a registered charity), “depression is a… mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration...”. Also according to the Mayo Clinic, a U.S based not-for-profit corporation, “mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression …” Clearly based on the foregone definitions, and unfortunately despite what she claims, Mrs. Clara Chime indeed has a mental disorder, a mental illness, a mental problem, the specific nature of which is major depression. In connection to that conclusion we ought to remember that in a press conference that Governor Chime had granted at the time on this matter (and with Clara by his side at the conference), Governor Chime had disclosed that Mrs. Clara Chime’s mental health challenges commenced even before May 29, 2011. According to him “it was so bad at a time that she had to be taken out of here (Governor’s Lodge) for treatment. When she stabilized, I pleaded with her doctors if she could be brought back here to be receiving her treatment at home and they graciously accepted”. It should be noted that at some point Mrs. Clara Chime was hospitalized for a protracted period, for her mental illness in a hospice in Enugu (that is, outside Governor’s Lodge).  It should also be noted that she received a diagnosis of depression from her Nigerian psychiatrists and has also currently received a diagnosis of depression from her psychiatrist in the United Kingdom.

 

So my point is that Mrs. Chime’s claimed ignorance as to why her husband could have asserted as a matter of fact that she has a mental problem along with her apparent attempt to insinuate that her husband had deliberately lied against her and inaccurately portrayed her as mentally ill, is itself inaccurate at best and deceptive at worst. The fact is that if Governor Chime ever stated out rightly that Mrs. Chime has a “mental problem” (I am not even sure he ever stated it so abruptly), then, the Governor was correct as a matter of fact, because Mrs. Chime, by her own admission and based on all the facts publicly available, indeed, suffers from what appears to be a case of major depression, a MENTAL ILLNESS which has required hospitalization, transnational professional medical attention, and continued psychiatric medication, monitoring and evaluation.

 

The second thing is that in her interview, Mrs. Chime claimed that her husband’s treatment of her led to her depression and mental illness.  But this is untrue. It is very unfortunate that Mrs. Chime is now falsely claiming to have never had mental issues prior to marrying Governor Chime. But witnesses, former classmates, friends, and colleagues from her past have now appeared and revealed first hand information that indeed Mrs. Clara Chime had had episodes of mental crises in her past, many years before she ever even met or married Governor Chime. 

 

According to one such source “I knew Clara before she got married to Sullivan. We all knew something was (is still) wrong with her. She used to work in Abuja. I was surprised when she started dating the Governor but what the hell she is a very beautiful lady...I remember people used to rumour that she is an Ogbanje (that was why she was so beautiful, yet off....). I am just surprised Sullivan married this lady who was off (mentally ill???), but Clara was not your average, normal person before she got married”.  There are also reports of episodes of mental crises she had while a student at Abia State University. The fact is that Mrs. Chime has had a history of suffering mental challenges even prior to her marriage to Governor Sullivan Chime in 2008. Her current bout of mental illness and depression is nothing new as it is merely a recent episode of an apparent chronic or episodic mental disorder that she had been suffering from for years before she ever married Governor Chime. Also she had not disclosed her history of mental disorder to Governor Chime prior to their marriage and so the Governor was unaware of this aspect of her life, It is therefore false and deceptive for Mrs. Chime to now claim that she had been mentally normal and that her current episode of mental illness/depression was caused by Governor Chime, when indeed her past mental history proves otherwise.

 

The third thing is that Mrs. Chime briefly brought up the matter of her alleged fetishism by merely mentioning that Governor Chime had accused her of keeping diabolical friends. Regarding this, we recall that Governor Chime had reportedly told members of the Human Rights Commission that his wife may have brought in some ritualists into the Governor’s official residence to perform some diabolic acts at a time that Governor Chime was overseas.  But is Mrs. Clara Chime really fetish and diabolical? Does she really visit native doctors? As of now all of the allegations of fetishism against Mrs. Chime appear to be rumours, but they are disturbing rumours nonetheless which ought to be investigated thoroughly.

 

 So now what should one make of this report from a purported friend of Mrs. Chime regarding her fetishism:

“I cry as I read this story...Clara Igwe, Sociology student of ABSU, pretty girl with a very contagious laugh, with her full legs...CHAI!!!.Truth be told, all her dream was to marry a rich man, even if was to be the 100th wife. She is very diabolic, am not surprised at all. If the devil gives u something, when its time he will collect it back with shame and agony. I remember when she used to date Terry Wyre or is it Suleh and Tijiani, that was when her father was on the wheel chair before he passed. Saying that she got served what she deserved will be mean and wicked, but the truth is, she needs prayers because she has slept with so many diabolic men and has soiled her hands with native doctors. They should take her to a church and soak her in a drum of holy water and anointing oil. It’s that bad. God bless and deliver you Clara Chibuzor Igwe, my fine Isuochi friend before”.

 

And what should one also make of this second report : “Clara Chime… it has been a rumor that she visited a native doctor to get a charm to keep her husband to herself but the charm backfired... I laugh cos she was so proud of herself when she achieved the governor and won't let people rest with intimidation. Now she is shouting; well an Igbo proverb says "ihe onye chu ka o na hu".

 

With just these two reports alone, one wonders what is really going on with Mrs. Clara Chime. Is she really into fetishism and is she really diabolical as rumoured? Does she really visit native doctors? Does she deal with ritualists? As we read more interviews and press releases from her, hopefully this aspect should be delved into some more, and more light thrown on the truth.

 

Finally as we watch Mrs. Chime display her disorder as a spectacle for the public to view, and as we watch her wash her dirty linen in full public glare, I am reminded that there is no shame for the lunatic dancing naked in the market square, for it is usually the lunatic’s kinsmen that bear the full brunt of the shame and ignominy.  I therefore call upon Mrs. Chime’s kinsmen to call her to order or share in her ultimate and inevitable disgrace. Her hidden handlers are also enjoined to stop parading the woman to the press as if she were a circus showpiece (just so they can embarrass Governor Chime).  As for Mrs. Chime, she is advised to (if she can) never forget to protect her dignity and integrity at all times by keeping her private family matter and mental health challenges out of the pages of newspapers and the worldwide media.  Instead she should focus on overcoming her depression and continuing to seek the face of God who can heal everything including her depression and her seeming intractable family/domestic problems. Mrs. Chime should realize that her political hidden handlers or puppeteers cannot help her. Only God can.  May God help her and heal her completely, amen.

 

By Morris Ngene

Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria