Dear editor

I have for sometime now been a reader of the LRF News which I usually receive through a friend in Kafue Estates.

When I read the first copy of your Newsletter, I found it to be informative and an answer to our problems.

The part that I like most is Know Your Rights which teaches us about our rights. It is interesting to know that LRF takes torturous police officers to task. I have noted LRF does not only help Zambians but all human kind.

I feel there is need for a LRF legal advice centre in Kafue because with the closure of Nitrogen Chemicals and Kafue Textiles, most people are suffering from injustices.

Your favourable consideration on opening a Kafue centre will be appreciated.

Dear editor

We are have been assisting Legal Resources Foundation to distribute Newsletters here in Kabwe for a long time. We have been doing this favour free and for sure, you are aware that the distribution of these newsletters is costly.

We are now disappointed to find that your organisation has stopped sending us Newsletters to distribute to our people. We used to take it to such places as Kapiri Mposhi, Kabwe General Hospital, Ngungu, Bwacha, Nakoli and other areas around Kabwe. Ever since you opened your office in Kabwe, Mr Mwiinga has stopped bringing us these Newsletters. The problem now is that people do not trust us and they are now calling us names. Please tell us what has gone wrong, have you forsaken us. It seems our efforts have not been appreciated by your organisation.

Yours Faithfully, Mr Kunda and Mrs Margaret Siame

Dear editor

I commend your organisation for the good work it is doing for the public. I was detained at Chimbokaila Central Prison from1997 until August this year when the LRF came to my aid.

If it were not for your organisation, I would have been in prison up to date. Your organisation should continue helping prisoners through the provision of legal aid so that many remandees can walk free.

I request your organisation to extend the prison visit programmes to other prisons in Zambia.

Dear editor

I hereby make an appeal on behalf of the Community Development and Staff Training College management and students to consider giving us two or three copies of the LRF News.

The college is a government institution, which falls under the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services. It trains social workers serving in both the public and private sectors whose major role is to sensitise the communities to become enlightened and functional communities.

It is in this vein that I find the LRF News an important instrument in equipping our trainees for the difficult and challenging tasks that they have to contend with.

Please let me know if there are any conditions of accessing your newsletter.

Dear editor

Is it possible for you people to educate us on the traffic rules, especially as regard to what the traffic police officers and women are supposed to be doing. It would seem to me that roadblocks are set up randomly and those found wanting are being asked to park their vehicles if they cannot pay the fine. Isn’t it possible that a system, where an offender is given a ticket to pay the fine later, can be set up? It is very inconveniencing to suddenly find oneself without a vehicle when there are a hundred and one things to do in order to survive in this difficult economic environment. Surely, we can afford to be modern about certain things.