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    "id": 806128,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Attorney-General (AG) Emeritus is here. The AG Emeritus can speak with authority on this matter. If I may explain, previously the problem was that there were no allocations for payments of court awards. Whenever one got the judgement you then write to the Ministry concerned and then the Ministry would write to the Treasury to pay out of the Contingency Fund. Nonetheless, during my tenure, we informed the accounting officers that they must make some sort of approximation or budgetary item on payment of court decrees. I issued a circular to that effect because we are a country ruled by the rule of law, which demands that we obey the law. The first institution to show an example of obeying the law is the Government of the day. The Government demonstrates that it adheres to the rule of law by obeying court orders. Therefore, it happened, but after that, the award became bigger, astronomical, more than it was expected and then we went back to square one. What I noticed from this particular Petition is that they took no legal action after obtaining the Certificate of Order against the Government. One of the most effective ways of getting payment after obtaining the Certificate of Order against the Government- --"
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