The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has halted payment of federal allocations to the Rivers State Government in compliance with a court judgement, just as the Court of Appeal in Abuja heard the appeal challenging the verdict on Friday.
A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal led by Hamma Barka, on Friday, reserved judgement on the state government’s appeal against a lower court’s decision stopping the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from releasing the South-south state’s monthly allocations.
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the state government had filed the appeal to challenge the 30 October judgement of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
