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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.

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