Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Chidi Lloyd, has recounted his ordeal in the hands of some lawmakers opposed to the state Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, who were accused of being behind the mayhem in the state legislature Tuesday.

There was free-for-all in the House of Assembly which had reconvened after months of suspending plenary to consider an amendment to the state’s 2013 budget.

He said the Assembly, having written to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Joseph Mbu, to provide security for the plenary, the lawmakers were happy when they arrived at the assembly to notice the presence of about 50 policemen, which they thought was in response to the request by the Speaker, Hon. Otelemaba Amachree.

He said: “We went in as members who have not seen ourselves for some time because of the crisis in the state. I was on my seat, without provocation, Hon. Evans Bipi came to me in the full glare of everybody on camera and started raining punches on me. As his leader, I did not react because I felt that it is something we could settle, whatever it is, maybe I didn’t greet him also. So he continued when that continued, the speaker intervened.

“Then he (Bipi) reached out for the tripod that stands the camera, used it freely on me. He and Michael Okechukwu Chinda, who later joined him in the attack, flogged me to their satisfaction. I didn’t utter a word until Hon. Ihunwo graciously asked me to run for my dear life because they had brought people with guns and of course, when I looked at the gallery they were shouting who is the Chidi Lloyd. Who is the Chidi Lloyd?

“So at that point, I’m sure somebody may have reached out to the governor of the state who came in with his own security because these other policemen were there standing helplessly, watching what was going on. So he came and rescued members out of the place. Then after a while we heard that they had sat, that they were meeting, they were trying to meet, they had procured a fake mace to the House, so we went back and I took the mace where they were sitting, then I sustained injury as a result of the violence by Michael Chinda and Evans Bipi.” Lloyd expressed concern over his safety and urged well-meaning Nigerians to intervene in the crisis in Rivers State before it leads to anarchy.

He said: “I’m so helpless; I don’t know who to run to. I can’t go to the commissioner of police because he is already in the arena; he’s already on the other side. I’m appealing to well-meaning Nigerians to pray for me and my family. That is the last hope we have resorted to and that we also urge the National Assembly, the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives not to turn the other way on the events in Rivers State. This could lead to something that we cannot imagine.”

Source: http://infonigeria24.com/battered-rivers-lawmaker-recounts-ordeal/

M confused gan,tot they said Chidi was d man with d big stick.

What is wrong with our leaders? A whole Hon Llyod can't even fake an injured man well. From the picture, everyone will know he just removed his cap and lie on that hospital bed just to snap the picture. Have anyone ever seen a cap beside an injured man in an hospital?
Pls try fake well well next time.
Okay na, you want us well meaning Nigerians to come to your aid? Did I hear you say that? Do you think we well meaning Nigerians care about any of you? No we don't no more as you people don't care a bit about us.
Enjoy your loot and also enjoy the pain. Time will tell sha in the country.

See severely bruised and hospitalized man with stainless white and his cap majestically placed beside him

Na today . . .See pretending . . .

Physical combat is no longer the true way of resolving conflicts, but through intellectual brainstorming in the court of law.

jmaine: See severely bruised and hospitalized man with stainless white and his cap majestically placed beside him



Na today . . .See pretending . . .

gunuvi: What is wrong with our leaders? A whole Hon Llyod can't even fake an injured man well. From the picture, everyone will know he just removed his cap and lie on that hospital bed just to snap the picture. Have anyone ever seen a cap beside an injured man in an hospital?
Pls try fake well well next time.
Okay na, you want us well meaning Nigerians to come to your aid? Did I hear you say that? Do you think we well meaning Nigerians care about any of you? No we don't no more as you people don't care a bit about us.
Enjoy your loot and also enjoy the pain. Time will tell sha in the country.

LMAO...

God help NIGERIA!

Was it not Chidi Lloyd that was shown in the video, planking a fellow member with a stick looking like the mace? How come he is now playing victim?

How on earth can these type of politicians think about development of a state.

Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria!! Re-locating to PLUTO

is this picture taken b4 he will be taken abroad

ha ; ha; ha;lawmakers lawbreakers!

NOLLYWOOD SCRIPT

@ all those putting dots and commas, I hope it wasna for the 1st to comment thing?.

I dey laff ooo

What is he taking drip for ? to re-grain the strenght he used in planking his fellow honourable's ? This picture looks fake jor. Well meaning nigerians indeed. You better get up from that bed and go back to that House called Assembly and continue the planking. because i enjoyed watching the season 1 of that movie "RIVERS STATE "THE ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF PLANKING"

aminho: is this picture taken b4 he will be taken abroad

who knows, tomorrow ?

What about the dude that was being brutalizes on the front page yesterday.
Where's his own hospital bed picture?

When is this going to end

When is this going to end?

Them never arrest them?

Walahi na all of them mess up, both the battered and the batteed!! Lol at d grammar

Rivers people, oya over to you o! You people will not watch your state turn into another war zone. it's left for you to decide how well you want your state to be.

He was the one hitting Hon . Chinda oh my God , liar

LMAO! These people are better actors than those in hollywood. The same man who was chasing someone with a big long stick is now laying in a hospital bed posing for cameras

He should have employed NOLLYWOOD make up artists to paint him with blood and wounds to make the picture look real Agbero Touts that call themselves Lawmakers.

Amaechi and his crew are cheap propagandists. This is a case of committing a crime and hurriedly rushing to the police to raise a false alarm. Part of the video clip being circulated on net shows that it was thus same Chidi Llyod that was using either plank or maze to beat up a armless lawmaker blue black. Shame on you guys.
N.B: I don't subscribe to the wreckless attitude of either camp. What has happened as has been seen in many other houses of assembly( PDP or ACN ) is a shame on the civility of the people who supposedly represent us, but what am still grasping with is why the governor had to mobilize to the state assembly with such alacrity and the rate at which the state commissioner of information had gone on air in channels as well as channels airing of a one sided and biase reportage( thought we accused NTA of this nonsense).
My candid conclusion is that we haven't seen or heard the last of what transpired but surely Amaechi is being smart and funny but how long can these antics sustain him?

Most nigerians don't understand d magnitude of problems in Rivers state. How can ordinary 5 law makers impeach a speaker out of d 32 members? What must have given them d guts to do that if they are not having backing from Abuja? I urge well meaning Nigerians to rise up to d illegality and rascality going on in Rivers state being sponsored by d president and his wife from Abuja

Oh Rivers!!!!! I weep for my state

Poor acting,lol. Worst than watching Jim Iyke take a pastor role. See as he relax well even cross leg join. Which hospital uses that kind of blinds on the window? Na shepe dey beside the bed so?
Clowns

loooolll..nor be this guy wey dey form Khal Drogo with the mace be that...this guy bare nearly killed like 3 guys