A Port Harcourt High Court Wednesday has granted bail to Chidi Lloyd who is standing trial on a six count charge which include conspiracy to murder after 15 days of incarceration. The Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd walked out of the Port Harcourt maximum security prisons at about 4:00pm Wednesday after he had fulfilled all the bail

conditions as directed by the Port Harcourt High Court .

Hundreds of his supporters thronged the prison yard in anticipation of his release. There was a joyous outburst as he walked out of the prisons.

This comes as the Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Worgu Boms, has advised the Police to arrest the following members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Evans Bipi (Ogu/Bolo Constituency); Victor Ihunwo (PHALGA Constituency III), Martins Amaewhule (Obio/Akpor Constituency I), Okechukwu Chinda (Obio/Akpor Constituency II) and Kelechi Nwogu (Omuma Constituency) for the role they played in the bloody confrontation that took place on the floor of the House on the 9th July.

Following an application for bail filed by Lloyd’s counsel Mr. Beluolisa Nwafor (SAN), the presiding judge, Justice L.L. Nyordee, after thorough legal scrutiny of the bail application which the prosecutor and the State Attorney General did not oppose, decided to grant bail to the lawmaker under stringent conditions.

Before granting Lloyd reprieve, Justice Nyordee observed that all the six count charges for which he is standing trial are criminal offences that are not punishable by death and are indeed bailable. According to him, even in a case when an offence is punishable by death, the court could still exercise its discretion to grant bail to an accused person pending the determination of the case. According to him, “the essence of bail is to grant the accused person temporary liberty to prepare for his defence.”

Justice Nyordee in granting Lloyd bail of N10 million, demanded that he deposit his international passport with the court and provide three sureties, who must be residents of Port Harcourt. The Judge said two of the sureties must deposit their photo passport with the court and must provide evidence that they own landed properties with certificate of occupancy in the State. Another condition of bail which the lawmaker must fulfill is that one of the surety must be a grade level 16 civil servant in the State who will have to provide a written letter from the head of his department.

After listening to the bail conditions which he applauded, lead counsel to the accused, appealed to the Judge to rescind the condition that Lloyd should deposit his international passport with the court. According to him, the request had become imperative to enable Lloyd travel aboard for medical treatment. The Judge however declined to grant the appeal.

Justice Nyordee has meanwhile fixed November 21, to hear the motion of notice filed by counsel to Lloyd..

In anticipation that he might fulfill all his bail conditions , some operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, laid ambush within the court premises in a bid to arrest Lloyd.

However, the inability of Lloyd to meet the bail conditions, thwarted the effort of the EFCC officials to arrest him as planned. And as he left the court premises, hundreds of youths from his constituency besieged the prisons vehicle that brought him to court as it drove off, in a bid to resist the EFCC attempt to arrest him.

Reacting to the EFCC plans to pick up Lloyd after the court granted him bail, the Attorney General urged the anti-graft agency to respect the subsisting court order that prohibits it from investigating the state finances.

Boms said the actions of the EFCC could be liken to a deliberate attempt to ridicule the country’s legal system.

“There are subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court that bar the EFCC from inquiring into the accounts of the Rivers State Government. it will be better if the EFCC should respect the laws of our land. This approach to legal system ridicules the justice system” he added.

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I cash am ftc

this guy suppose to be in prison if not of nigeria factor

Eeeheen ........... *yawns * back to bed

As usual, power of money.

Confusing report, walkout maximum prison and couldn't meet up with the bail conditions.

The bail conditions r 2much.

If na poor man steal phone now,police go lock am up wit no option of bail saying investigation is still on going....

but bail is free na??

Halla at Lloyd. Chinda go dy fear now

how did he get blood on his cloth

you see why you never shout south south.


the section quoted to shut down the house, i cant find...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXcbMzrYiyw

Nigeria is finished !!!


A country where the poor get jailed and the rich get bailed


who were his sureties

Professor PP: I cash am ftc

Check well boo. And try harder.

@Topic: de game is gettin to a logical conclusion

We de watch oo


Let's see who takes de girl home

Naija !! feel like breaking Seun Osewa's head with a mase too! am sure N200 bail will get me out

wetin concern efcc for this case?

Even though I'm on pro Amaechi's side (only on speaker issue), I stand to say this guy acted lika an "Animal" ... He deserves whatever punishment is meted out to him. Ko gbodo bo ninu e.

Please wots the health state of the mase victim?

EFCC is also investigating thuggery and macing. Don't provoke the Master that owns the dogs because they can bite at any time even without provocation.

they should not let him go, what is 10m to the man he atemted to kill

An unfair ruling

At the end, the people that will suffer most are those 5 lawbreakers that engineered the whole madness in the house.

For his political survival GEJ will dispense with Wike...and those lawbreakers will be fully exposed to the political machinations of Governor Ameachi

Y federal high court go bar EFCC from investigating the Rivers state government account? na liberty be that oooo to loot. the court must be really HIGH as it's name implies to grant such an order.

the national assembly has no power based on the independent act to suspended


he claim he fought chidi lloyd because he insult his brother jonathan in this video.

the issue is the president should be blame for all of this. when and where did the people of nigeria created south south that he is imposing on the nation. does he expect the igbos in river state to sell their birthright.

look the chief judge should advice the president that he has committed an offence which is impeachable under law. i have told you people the truth,.


the way they make law over here. they ask the chief judge for advice, on previous treaty and act the country has sign.. before they pass the law. what you have is against the system


he claim in the second video, he attack chidi lloyd first. i give him blow several times


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T47I076xXQc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRk-bAIqmJc

Nigerian jury is just house of joke...(jhj)

Yes arresting Evans Bipi & others is just to make the case look as if the judge is neutral & to create more fund for the judiciary but the truth is that there will be no way Chidi Lloyd purnishment will not be more compare to others.The judgement against Bipi & others will be determind by the outcome of the police investigation which will still make Evans Bipi & others purnishment mild.The court can't lay much emphasis on Evans Bipi & others because ignorant is not an excuse to the law.When i mentioned others even the Governor of the state Rotimi Amaechi & his CSO are among,so you see what i mean bringing these people in will make the case head no where or cause much delay.Let's watch if this will not end like Otedola & Faruk Lawal where all the video evidence of the money transaction was rubbished before our eyes.

melojames: An unfair ruling

Please let's be objective when expressing our opinion on public forum.The law said "a man is presume innocent until proven guilty by a competent court law".The case is in court, and we should all show some sort of decorum when commenting on issue that's before the court of law for legal reason

Ameachi 2 : 0 F.G.....Lets go there

Must he travel abroad for treatment? Hospital no dey PH again? Life don tire my guy him dey find political asylum for abroad.

Bright2: Yes arresting Evans Bipi & others is just to make the case look as if the judge is neutral & to create more fund for the judiciary but the truth is that there will be no way Chidi Lloyd purnishment will not be more compare to others.The judgement against Bipi & others will be determind by the outcome of the police investigation which will still make Evans Bipi & others purnishment mild.The court can't lay much emphasis on Evans Bipi & others because ignorant is not an excuse to the law.When i mentioned others even the Governor of the state Rotimi Amaechi & his CSO are among,so you see what i mean bringing these people in will make the case head no where or cause much delay.Let's watch if this will not end like Otedola & Faruk Lawal where all the video evidence of the money transaction was rubbished before our eyes.

pls don't be one sided, what of PGEJ