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Contempt: Judge gives Lagos AG 7 days to obey court’s order

Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Lagos has given the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) and Lagos State Special Task Force a seven-day ultimatum to comply with a restraining order issued by the court in a case filed by Admiralty Fleet Limited.

 

The judge while issuing the ultimatum also condemned disregard for the order he made on October 18, 2021, warning that such conduct erodes confidence in the system and failure to check it will breed anarchy.

 

Justice Osiagor stated this in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1384/21 filed by Admiralty Fleet Limited (BICS Garden), and Admiral Festus Porbeni (rtd), against the Lagos State Attorney General, National Inland Waterways Authority and the Chairman, Lagos State Special Task Force.

 

The court on October 18, restrained the Attorney General of Lagos State and Lagos State Special Task Force Unit (1st and 3rd defendants) from allocating any portion of a property located at B20,

 

Wole Olateju Crescent, off Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1 in Eti- Osa Local Government Area pending the hearing of the substantive suit. However, Lagos State Government appealed against the order and followed it up by re-deploying the Lagos State Task Force and police officers into the site in breach of the order of injunction.

 

The first and third defendants allegedly brought a bulldozer onto the site at about 4 am on October 20 and under the cover of darkness, demolished structures on the site with the Lagos State Task Force policemen providing protection for those flouting the injunction.

 

Amazed by the conduct of the first and third defendants, the claimants commenced contempt proceedings against the Attorney General of Lagos State.

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