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"speaker_name": "Kisumu West, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Olago Aluoch",
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"content": "I hear Members lamenting about what needs to be done but I want to say this: As long as we have the Government Proceedings Act in the way it is in Kenya, our ministries will continue with impunity to disregard court judgments - whether they come from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal or the High Court. In other countries where there are similar provisions, those Governments honour court judgments and they pay. In Kenya, they do not. In the 10th Parliament, I brought amendments to the Government Proceedings Act. What I brought was very wise to do but the Attorney-General had a long meeting with me, three meetings in fact, and pleaded that if those amendments were approved by the House, then the Government would be bankrupted. I slowed down but I think time has now come for this House or one of us, I will do it myself, to look at the Government Proceedings Act once again and amend it in a way that can offer some protection to the ministries but at the same time give Kenyans who have court judgments the capacity to attach Government assets, if necessary. I urge my colleagues this morning that, as we leave this in hands of the Departmental Committee on Health, let the Budget and Appropriations Committee look at it. Also, our Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs should look at it and find out if it is possible to amend that Act."
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