Double murder case: Rivers Assembly leader, Chidi Lloyd, released on bail

by Adeola Balogun

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Following his arrest over allegations of murder, leader of the Rivers House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd has been freed on bail.

The legislator is said to have been released on administrative bail after being held by the police for 5 days.

[READ: Rivers lawmaker, Chidi Lloyd, arrested ‘while trying to escape in Amaechi’s private jet’]

Lloyd is said to have knowingly driven his vehicle recklessly thereby intentionally causing the death of one Kingsley Ejehuo, said to be his opponent and a police officer, Urang Obediah on December 30, 2013 along the East-West Road within the state.

Leadership reports:

Lloyd, who represents Emohua Constituency in the House, was arrested by the police at about 6.30pm on January 2, 2014.

Legal representative of the detained lawmaker, Mr Emenike Ebete, told journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, that he was granted administrative bail with a condition that he must deposit his international passport with the police, as well as provide two sureties, one of who must deposit a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of a landed property.

The arrest of Lloyd deepened the face-off between Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the Commissioner of Police, Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu, as both disagreed on the allegation levelled against the lawmaker.

The police, had in a statement, said the lawmaker was arrested on his way to the Air-Force base in Port Harcourt, to join Amaechi in a private jet in an attempt to evade police arrest, even when Ebete insisted that he was with Lloyd in his residence in Port Harcourt when he was arrested.

But the governor, who spoke through his chief press secretary, David Iyofor, said the position of the police on the matter was an attempt to hoodwink the public and discredit the governor

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