Sun, 05 Mar 2017 09:49:04 +0000
By AARON CHIYANZO
THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) should be engaged for it to change its way of operation, not by sticks and stones because you fight ideas with better ideas, Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) president Aaron Mujajati has said.
Dr. Mujajati said that LAZ could not be made to change its ways by sticks and stones and that ideas were supposed to be fought with better ideas.
He said in a statement made available to the Sunday Nation that the Zambian people should learn to resolve differences in peace.
Dr. Mujajati reiterated that members of the public should have confidence in public institutions to safeguard public interests.
He explained that people should accept that difference of opinion was necessary in an open society even when they did not agree with one another.
Dr. Mujajati said that ZMA was strongly against perpetrators of intimidation against LAZ and the notion that anyone could take the law into their own hands because they belong to one political party or the other.
“Members of the public should have confidence in these processes to safeguard public interests. For the advancement of our democracy, we as a country, must learn to resolve our differences in peace.
“Even when we do not agree one with another, we must accept that a difference of opinion is necessary in an open society. LAZ cannot be made to change its ways by sticks and stones because you fight ideas with better ideas,” he said.
Dr. Mujajati said that the attack on LAZ was especially concerning because it was done against a professional institution with its own internal processes that governed its operations and handles internal disputes.
He called on the various professional bodies, political parties and all peace loving Zambians to come out and engage LAZ professionally.
Dr. Mujajati urged the police command to ensure that people who attacked public institutions were brought to book.
“ZMA will take no stance on how LAZ is supposed to conduct its business because it is an independent body of professionals. But we are strongly against perpetrators of intimidation and the notion that anyone can take the law into their own hands because they belong to one political party or the other,” he said.
