Court grants Rivers Assembly leader bail, PDP faction kicks AN Ahoada Division High Court has granted the detained leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, bail and ordered the police to immediately release him from two weeks’ incarceration. But the Felix Obuah-led faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in a statement in Port Harcourt expressed shock over the bail, stressing that it was a vindication of its fear that Michael Chindah would not get justice in the state. Besides, the judicial commission of inquiry into the imbroglio in the Assembly has implored all factions in the crisis to immediately end hostilities. One of Lloyd’s counsel, Mr. Emenike Ebete, disclosed that they had filed an application at the court presided over by Justice Charles Wali, seeking to enforce the fundamental human rights of the lawmaker whom the police have slammed with a six-count charge which includes attempted murder. Wali’s decision to grant Lloyd bail was predicated on the conviction that the police had held him in detention for two weeks without arraignment and that his health was fast- deteriorating based on the medical report tendered by his doctor to the court. The judge ordered that the police should never re-arrest Lloyd once he had been released from detention pending the determination of his application on August 12. At the time of filing this report, Lloyd’s counsel were on the way back to Port Harcourt to serve the police the order. But the Special Adviser on Media to the state PDP, Jerry Needam, described the bail and order stopping further arrest and prosecution of Lloyd as a travesty of justice. Needam queried the logic behind the order in a case properly brought before another judge of co-ordinate jurisdiction in Port Harcourt who is handling the matter and has adjourned it to August 6, 2013.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:26:44 +0000
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