A Lagos lawyer, Chief Ziggy Azike, yesterday, berated Assets Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, for refusing to obey a Federal High Court, Abuja, ruling ordering it to vacate the premises of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, as policemen, allegedly acting on its directives, have continued to deny workers of the company access to the premises.

Akike told Vanguard: “This flagrant disobedience to a court order is very unfortunate, to say the least.

“It is more tragic that such arrogant contemnors as AMCON are using the police to defy the court.

“All courts ought to take judicial notice of this impunity by AMCON and refuse to hear them until they obey, comply and purge themselves of contemptuous behaviour.

“AMCON took this matter to court and through an ex parte order, took possession of the property. Now the same court has vacated the order and AMCON has refused to obey, thereby choosing to obey only favourable orders.

“This conduct violates all the canons of the rule of law, and the locus classicus case of Ojukwu vs Military Governor of Lagos State, will ensure no appellate court will hear AMCON until they obey. That is the law.”