BY JIMITOTA  ONOYUME

PORT HARCOURT—Rivers State Government has described as untrue, allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the government had ordered stoppage of salaries of judicial staff in the state for the month of May.

Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari and the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Mr Tony Okocha in separate comments, said the allegation was not true. The two who responded to text messages sent by our reporter said the PDP lied over the issue.

The PDP had on Friday, raised alarm over alleged move to stop payment of salaries of judicial staff in the state for the month of May over the state government’s directive to the judicial workers not to take directives from Justice Daisy Okocha, who was appointed acting Chief Judge of the state by the National Judicial Council, NJC.

The party had alleged that a letter had been written to a new generation bank to hold back the salaries of the said judicial staff.