Stop the madness in administration of justice
Friday, September 25, 2015
Dibotelo
We are aghast at seeing this side of the coin tossed to expose the dirty linen in the chambers. The audit was done, irregularities were found and transparency factored. But what happened to discretion in addressing such an internal matter and ensuring the wrongly dispensed and received monies were recovered?
The Judges are treated like dirty criminal who must be “bewigged” and hang their heads in shame. One suspects there is a bone to chew, a dirty scoundrel of a matter. It should have been enough to have the Judges licking their wounds and starving over the deductions for the months to come! But no, somebody just reduces the institution to this sordidness. The whole thing smacks of poor management, add to that a manipulative and divisive type of working environment.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...