Rivers State has released the group of ExxonMobil employees it accused of entering the state in defiance of the lockdown intended to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike announced the release of the 22 employees on April 19. A statement reported Rivers’ Attorney-General Zaccheus Adangor as saying the Exxon staff had been released without charge. No further charges are expected.
The statement quoted Adangor as saying they had been released “following interventions by well-meaning Nigerians”.
The employees had been held at the state’s isolation centre, in the Yakubu Gowon stadium in Port Harcourt.
In his statement, the Governor said the state government was still committed to its efforts to restrict the spread of coronavirus.