Boko issues direct order for gov’t litigation

“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.