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    "content": "Agreement between SWIPCO-SA and Inspection and Control Services ICS (incorporated under the Laws of England and Wales). (2) The Attorney-General informed the Ministry of the award and advised the Ministry to settle the award expeditiously. However, the Ministry has not been able to settle the award as scheduled due to budgetary constraints occasioned by high priority competing demands on the national Budget. (3) The claimants became impatient with the delay in settlement and on 23rd October, 2009, obtained an ex- parte order from the High Court in London, freezing an account titled “Kenya Government Account” at the Crown Agents Bank Limited in London. (4) The Ministry of Finance has instructed the Attorney-General to seek indulgence of the claimant’s lawyers with a view of resolving the matter within the current budgetary constraints, and is preparing to meet with the claimant’s lawyers at the earliest opportunity and agree on a schedule for the settlement of the award. (5) The amount of money that has been frozen in the Crown Agents Bank Limited is US$10,383,852.74, which is the equivalent of about Kshs809,940,000. These are both donor funds aid from bilateral and multilateral sources and also Government funds used to pay pensioners in the United Kingdom (UK). In the meantime, Crown Agents Bank Limited has also moved to the High Court of Justice to challenge the manner in which the ICS obtained the ex-parte order and their application is pending in court. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, I wish to assure this House that the ex-parte order obtained by ICS is not in any way directed towards the attachment of the Kenya High Commission in London. The Kenya Government does not have an account with the Crown Agents Bank Limited. The Government uses Crown Agents, who has an account with the bank, to pay its pensioners in the UK. The frozen account, therefore, is a Crown Agents account with the bank titled “Kenya Government Account.” The order was served upon the Kenya High Commission, this being the representative of the Government of the Republic of Kenya in the UK. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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