IT is inconceivable that given the gravity of the current health crisis some Zambians are prepared to defy prevailing laws and statutes in pursuit of mindless pleasure.We indeed sympathise with, but wish to caution, the modality that Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo has taken in bringing to book miscreants who have wilfully chosen to abrogate the law.The rule of law is the restriction against the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.It means that those seeking to enforce the law must follow the law. They cannot be above the law, otherwise they descend to the same level as those abrogating it.It is true that liquor traders in collusion with frivolous fun-lovers have devised devious schemes to sell beer behind locked doors in bars and shebeens dotted around townships and other places. At the same time in spite of the very ample evidence of the benefits of wearing face masks some […]
Observe the rule of law
