The Rivers State Government on Sunday morning released the 22 Staff of Exxon Mobil arrested for violating the State Executive Order restricting movement in the state.
Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Rivers State, Professor Zaccheus Adangor, who disclosed this to The Nation, said they were released without charges.
The Nation recalls the 22 staff were arrested for entering the state in violation of the border closure ordered by Governor Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, 16 April.
The Governor, in a statement, on Friday vowed that the 22 staff of the American oil firm would be prosecuted as was down to two pilots and 10 passengers flown into the state by Caverton Helicopters.
However, the Attorney-General said the State Government will no longer press charges against them, following interventions by well-meaning Nigerians.
The Attorney-General of Rivers State noted that he monitored the release of the 22 Exxon Mobil at the State Isolation Centre at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt.
He noted the Rivers State Government remains committed to implementing the Executive Order issued to check the spread of coronavirus.
It will be recalled that security agencies
arrested 22 staff of Exxon Mobil who entered the State from Akwa Ibom in violation of the State Executive Order.
The order stipulates that health authorities ascertain the coronavirus status of those entering the State.

Rivers releases 22 detained Exxon Mobil workers
by The Cable
The Rivers state government has released the 22 Exxon Mobil workers who were arrested for violating movement restriction orders.
Zaccheus Adangor, the state attorney-general and commissioner of justice, said the workers were released without any charges.
Adangor said the oil workers were released after the interventions of well-meaning Nigerians.
The workers were detained at the state isolation centre, Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt.
They were arrested after entering the state from Akwa Ibom.
Nyesom Wike, the state governor, had issued an executive order restricting movements to check the spread of the coronavirus.
The order stipulates that health authorities ascertain the coronavirus status of those entering the state.
After the arrest, Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police, had ordered the immediate redeployment of Dandaura Mustapha, the commissioner of police in Rivers state.
Joseph Mukari was named as his replacement while Mustapha was announced the commissioner of police, provost at the force headquarters, Abuja.
Wike had previously ordered the arrest of two pilots of Caverton Helicopters for flying some oil workers into the state during the lockdown.
The company had argued that the federal government exempted it from the flight ban but the governor dismissed the argument and the pilots were arraigned in court and remanded in prison.

By Shola O’Neil