A high court sitting in Port Harcourt Thursday morning, October 17th, granted bail to four out of the twelve persons facing trial in the murder case of the four students of University of Port Harcourt in Aluu, in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The four are: Omoikiri Aluu monarch: Alhaji Welewa, Okoghiroh Endurance, Ozioma Abajuo and Chigozie Evans Samuel.
Presiding Judge, Justice Letan Nyordee granted them bail on grounds that their offense is not a capital offense and is bail-able.
They were granted bail to the tune of N2 million with two sureties and the court asked the sureties to submit their passports. The sureties must also have landed property in Port Harcourt and must show means of livelihood and evidence of paying tax for two years. The other eight suspects were refused bail due to the murder charges against them.
The court also admitted the photographs negatives and the YouTube CD of the incident tendered as exhibits in the matter.
Earlier this month, parents of the four students marked a year after the gruesome murder of their children. Students and civil society organisations joined in sympathising with the parents of the deceased during the one year memorial service in commemoration of their death.
Mother to one of the students, late Lloyd Toku-Mike, Mrs. Jane Toku-Mike said, the death of her son in the past one year has not only created a vacuum in the family but has encouraged her to prophesy and commit her children to consistent prayer life to avert repetition.
In the same vein, Mrs. Faith Friday Elkanah, mother to late Friday Elkanah and Mr. Obuzor Josiah, father of late Ugonna Kelechi Josiah described the death of their children as a painful loss to the family and the society at large.
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