Order for Yingluck to pay Bt35 bn in compensation is legit, PM says
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insisted Tuesday that enforcement of an administrative order against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay compensation of Bt35.7 billion for huge losses incurred by her government’s rice pledging scheme was legitimate.
The PM said he had consulted with the government legal team that enacted the 1996 liability bill and they had told him that enforcing the order did not contravene the intention of the law.
“It is what has to be done,” Prayut said. “The legal experts all said it was not against the law. So, if they [Yingluck and her cabinet members] have any explanations, they can provide them to the Court, not the media.”
He was only doing his job in carrying out the legal process; the action against Yingluck was not a personal initiative, the PM stressed.
A decision had already been made to make the former PM pay compensation, so his job was complete.
Prayut asked everyone to wait for the end result and not stir up any more conflict that would trouble the country.
