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A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has delivered judgment on the contentious issue of Celestine Omehia's entitlement to pension benefits
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ruled that Sir Celestine Omehia is not logically recognisable as a former governor of the state and as
The court however held that Mr Omehia cannot be asked to refund the N695 million wrongly paid to him, as he never applied to the state government or the state assembly to accord him the status of a former governor.
Justice Daketima Kio of the Rivers State High Court has declared that Mr Celestine Omehia cannot be held accountable for the payment of millions of naira in pension benefits from the state government. The judge noted this while delivering judgment in the suit brought by Omehia against the Rivers State Governor, Attorney General of the State, Speaker, and the State House of Assembly, challenging the directive of the government to refund over N696 million paid to him as pension and other benefits until his derecognition.