Lawmen breaking law
Both our editorials today demonstrate the disregard our leaders and public servants have for the people who elect them and whom they are supposed to serve.
THE photograph of the police vehicle breaking traffic rule on the busy Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue as carried by the Monday issue of this paper speaks for itself. Albeit it was by chance that the errant driver of the vehicle was caught in the act in the photojournalist's camera, this kind of flouting of traffic rules by vehicles owned by lawmen, and also VIPs, rather happens all the time. Sadly though, many in authority are often found to conveniently bend the rule of the road causing immense trouble to the common, law-abiding road users. When those in authority, who are supposed to create instances before others in their adherence to the rule of law, are found trampling on it with abandon, it is hardly surprising that it is chaos, not order, that takes charge of our road traffic system.
The predictable consequence of the errant police vehicle has been graphically shown in the picture. There was, in effect, none to stop other vehicles to follow the bad example set by the police car in question and drive their vehicles along the wrong side creating a sudden snarl-up in such a busy traffic intersection of the city. What message has the incident left with the rest of the road users?
Such behaviour from members of the law-enforcement agency in a democratic system is quite unacceptable. It reflects very negatively on a government that claims to be democratic run by the rule of law. We wonder when, if ever, such disregard for law will end.
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