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    "id": 1109438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1109438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13491,
        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. When I was in active practice, I used to represent Equip Agencies Limited and do their debt collection. This is a company that has done great supplies to many entities in the country and it has been quite around for a while. It is extremely unacceptable for the Government to fail to satisfy judgements that are passed against it. We know that under the Government Proceedings Act, we cannot attach the property of the Government. Instead of the Government enjoying that privilege it has been given by the law, it is actually abusing it by not honouring judgements. As we speak today, the unsatisfied judgements against the Government are about to hit Kshs1 trillion. This House has been allocating money so that most of those judgements are satisfied, but the Treasury, as usual, has been knocking off whatever provision the House makes so that the judgements remain unsatisfied. It is high time that the House considered whether we should amend the Government Proceedings Act and expose the Government to the remedy of execution by way of attachment. Today, if you have a judgement against the Government, you have to go through the whole process of mandamus and notices to show costs. To some extent, even where the Principal Secretaries (PSs) are summoned to court to explain why they are not satisfying judgements, they simply do not appear. Warrants of arrest would then be issued against them but the Inspector-General of Police would not execute them. It is like they are telling the court: “What are you going to do if we do not satisfy the judgement?” It is high time that we woke up to stand with Kenyans. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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