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Delta State Government yesterday refuted recent mass media studies to the consequence that the Delta State Executive Council approved the sum of money of N400 million to ease a foreign trip for the members of the State House of Assembly.

A statement signed by the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mister Oma Djebah said the study was false and misleading.

The Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Dr Olisa Imegu also denied the said study which it said was full of inacurracies.

"Delta State Government under the leading of His Excellency, Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, did not at any clip O.K. the sum of money of N400 million for foreign trip for legislators", Djebah's statement said.

It further added that "the Governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan approved someamount for military officers of the House of Assembly to set about a foreign trip for the intent of enhancing legislative business."

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The state Government affirmed that "this is a well known pattern everywhere in the world, especially in developing democracies of Africa and Asia, where the chief aim is to construct capacity, heighten cognition and competences of the legislative assembly to execute its duties creditably and statutorily".

A seperate statement issued by the Head Press Secreatry to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mister Zane Grey Alumona admitted that the legislators travelled for a leading programme held at the Toilet Stennis Institute of Governmemt, Mississipi State University in the United States.

He noted that contrary to the reported N400 million allegedly approved for the said trip, it was N77, 900,000 which covered traveling cost, engagement fee and eventualities for 29 members including five support staff that was approved.