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We Need Human Rights Materials in Local Languages
Dear editor
I would like to thank you for the wonderful work you are doing in helping
the underprivileged. I especially enjoy the Newsletters that you produce. I
have learnt a lot from these publications and now I have a better
understanding of the law. I am even able to give basic advise to my friends
and family on issues of law. I also encourage them to seek your services
having read how you people help a lot of people.
I would like to ask you to produce some educational material in our local
languages so that even the people in the villages can be educated.
I once came across one of the brochures you had produced in local languages
on inheritance. I think that was a good effort. Please we need a lot more of
such information. The people especially in the villages are behind on issues
of human rights and a lot of people are victimized on petty accusations of
witchcraft or property grabbing, lack of support for children and the like,
especially women's rights.
Once more I would like to thank you for the good work.
Thank your very much
Yours faithfully,
Mulenga M S
Lusaka.
That Was Sad
Dear editor
In your January edition of the newsletter I read an interesting letter about
a woman from western Province who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
without being made to appear before any court. According to the facts of
this story the woman had a misunderstanding with a police officer over the
money he owed her over maize. Sir if this is true then it makes sad reading.
How can an innocent person spend all those years in prison over a crime she
did not commit? If such things truly happen then it makes sad reading and
there is some thing totally wrong with our system. How could it not be
detected that this woman never appeared before any court? It appears to me
if your organisation had not intervened this woman would have spent more
years in prison. Am sure the officers thought because this woman is from the
village she would not know how to speak out.
I say bravo LRF, I salute you. Please continue helping these people who have
no money to hire lawyers or people to help them. But I want to ask for a
favour. Please make sure the officers are brought to book. They should be
punished and be made to spend 10 years in prison themselves.
Please help her also to get compensation. She deserves it. Also find out
about what happened to the baby she had when she was arrested.
Yours faithfully,
Munalula Liswaniso
Mongu.
Corruption Fight Is A Waste Of Time
Dear Editor
Allow me to express my views over President Mwanawasas corruption fight.
The fight against corruption is a waste of money unless government puts in
place proper structures. Unless police conditions of service are improved,
corruption will never stop.
Unless procurement procedures are properly laid down, unless our court
system improves on their operations, unless government bureaucracy is
improved and the workers are efficient corruption will never end. Corruption
comes about due to seeking quick services and favours. So if all these
structures are not worked on corruption will continue.
The Anti Corruption Commission should be mandated to putting in place
efficient structures of operations then they will be fighting corruption.
Picture this, if motorists caught committing traffic offences were given
tickets and on their convenient time go and pay the penalty at the police
station, they would not resort to corrupting the police officers. This
corruption comes about due to the motorists fear of being delayed.
If obtaining documents such as passports and National Registration Cards was
a straight forward procedure people would not corrupt those officers to
obtain them. Let us try and cure the root cause of corruption and not the
symptoms.
I hope the policy maker will see sense in my reasoning.
God Bless you all,
Linah M.P.S.
Lusaka.
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