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  The Ebonyi State Government, on Wednesday, denied contracting and owing a consulting firm, Andrew Bishopton Nig Ltd, saying the claim by the later in court was baseless and unfounded. The state government alleged that representaves of the organisation had at various times, confessed it never had any contractual agreement with the state. The Commissoner for Information, in the state, Uchenna Orji, stated this during a press conference in Abakaliki. A court in Ebonyi State had requested the Central Bank of Nigeria to deduct N40billion from Ebonyi State allocation as part of repayment to the consulting firm after the firm claimed the Ebonyi State Government reportedly contracted the company in 2016 to pursue and recover monies illegally deducted on both its foreign and local loans and facilities especially the Paris club refund. The firm, it was gathered, approached the court following the state government’s alleged reluctance to keep to the agreed contract terms, a development that...