We have not received any truckload of rice, sale of 50kg bag of rice is fake news – Abia Govt.
The Abia State Government has clarified that it has not received 20 trucks of rice as a palliative from the Federal Government. The State Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, stated that no such palliative has arrived in the state and that there has been no communication from the Federal Government regarding it.
He also dismissed as fake news the reports claiming that the Federal Government had distributed 50kg bags of rice to states for sale at the price of N40,000.
“We didn’t see any truck of rice from the Federal Government. And the issue of selling a 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,” he said.
Fielding questions on whether it was not proper for the government to open channels of communication with the federal government on the issue, the commissioner 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!”
