Chidi Lloyd
The embattled Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, was allegedly blindfolded and tortured by the police on his return to Port Harcourt Friday from the Force Headquarters, Abuja, before being taken to the Rivers State Police Command for interrogation.
Also yesterday, the Divisional Police Officer attached to Port Harcourt Airport was queried for allowing Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s aide de camp, Debeware Semeikumo, to travel abroad through the airport.
Reacting to Lloyd’s ordeal, the chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Dakuku Peterside accused the police of subjecting Lloyd to torture “in a bid to coerce him into making an involuntary confessional statement.”
Also, the leader of Ikwerre Political Thinktank and Chairman, House Committee on Public Service Matters, Andrew Uchendu, who said he went to Police Officers Mess in Port Harcourt where the lawmaker was being detained, lamented that “Lloyd was kept without food and water after severe maltreatment under the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu.”
Uchendu added: “He told me that he was treated nicely in Abuja where officers only met and questioned him. But once he was moved to Port Harcourt, right from the airport, they threw him in the back of a Black Maria and also threw tear gas into the van after beating him.”
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