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Boko issues direct order for gov’t litigation

Boko issued the instruction to all government legal teams that going forward there will be no litigations against citizens PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Boko issued the instruction to all government legal teams that going forward there will be no litigations against citizens PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

President Duma Boko has issued a direct order for government legal teams to desist from litigating against citizens in cases where government is clearly in the wrong.

“This is a standing instruction to all government legal teams that do not litigate against a citizen where you have clearly wronged the citizen. Do not litigate but settle. This is the approach going forward,” he said.

Speaking at the High Level Business Engagement Forum on Tuesday, the President explained that even where a lawyer can go to court and argue the case on a technicality like the matter having been prescribed there should be settlement as the substance of the matter still lingered on regardless.

Editor's Comment
Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...

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