The Rivers State Government has denied reports that Governor Siminalayi Fubara has shut down the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited operations in the state.
The rebuttal is contained in a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Joe Johnson.
Reports circulated on the Internet had claimed that Governor Fubara shut down the company after a court stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria from releasing federal allocation to the state.
A YouTube blog reported that Mr Fubara had declared “no allocation to Rivers State no oil for Nigeria,” in response to the Abuja Federal High Court order.
Rebuttal
In its reaction, the Rivers State Government said the trending news was not only “false but a concocted propaganda from the imagination of the author and enemies of the State.
“The story was also circulated by an inconsequential and unverified medium,” Mr Johnson, the information commissioner said.
The commissioner said Mr Fubara is committed to the…