AMCON initiates contempt charge against Ogboru

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Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria has begun contempt proceedings against a former Democratic Peoples Party's governorship candidate in Delta State, Great Ogboru, before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

He allegedly violated the court order.

Also cited in the contempt proceedings are Turner Ogboru, Victor Agbenrien, Muibi Sunmonu, Mike Ladesuyi, Roland Ogboru and Raphael Uwhumakpor. They are all directors in Ogboru's company, Fiogret Limited.

The contempt allegation arose from an application in which AMCON claimed it had secured a court order empowering it to appoint a receiver/manager over some Ogboru's property.

The property was allegedly used to secure a loan from Equitorial Trust Bank (now Sterling Bank).

The receiver/manager reportedly appointed by AMCON over the assets is Kunle Ogunba (SAN).

However, Ogboru, his officers and some thugs allegedly invaded the premises and removed several truckloads of fish contrary to an earlier advice by the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang.

In a supporting affidavit to the contempt proceedings, Ogboru was alleged to have threatened to "deal with the receiver/manager for executing the orders of court."

The affidavit read, "The acts of thuggery, extreme hooliganism and outright lawlessness of the cited parties in violently breaking into all the properties in receivership in conjunction with thugs, hoodlums, area boys and all manner of street urchins in spite of the subsistence of a restraining order amounts to grievous contempt of worst specie of the court."



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