Abia State Government has said it was yet to receive any 20 trucks of rice as palliative from the Federal Government.
Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, told Vanguard that no such palliative had arrived the state, adding also that there was no communication from the Federal Government for any such palliative.
This is as he dismissed as fake news, reports that the Federal Government had also distributed 50kg bags of rice to states for sale at the cost of N40,000.
He said:” We didn’t see any truck of rice from the Federal Government. And the issue of selling 50kg bag of rice for N40,000 is fake news.
” We don’t deal with rumours and speculations. There has been a way the federal government communicates with us when it has to do with palliatives, and no such message has come from the federal government.”
Asked whether it was not proper for the State Government to open channels of communication with the federal government on the issue, he said it was not necessary.
“There is no point for us to be wasting our time looking for where to verify the news. If the news was authentic, we could have gotten the message as a Government straight from the federal government. No such thing happened!”
