The Rivers state government has bowed to pressure and released the 22 ExxonMobil workers who were arrested for violating movement restriction orders,
The Rivers state government has bowed to pressure and released the 22 ExxonMobil workers who were arrested for violating movement restriction orders, TheCable is reporting.
Zaccheus Adangor, the state attorney-general and commissioner of justice, said the workers were released without any charges after the interventions of well-meaning Nigerians.
The workers who were detained at the state isolation centre, Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt were arrested after entering the state from Akwa Ibom.
Nyesom Wike, the state governor, had issued an executive order restricting movement, stipulating that health authorities ascertain the coronavirus status of those entering the state to check the spread of the coronavirus.
Following the arrest, Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police, had ordered the immediate redeployment of Dandaura Mustapha, the commissioner of police in Rivers state and Joseph Mukari replacing him,
Wike had previously ordered the arrest of two pilots of Caverton Helicopters for flying some oil workers into the state during the lockdown. The company had argued that the federal government exempted it from the flight ban but the governor dismissed the argument and the pilots were arraigned in court and remanded in prison.
