Consequently, institutions will struggle to be strengthened
MITHI: A relative of a member of the National Assembly has allegedly been taken into custody by the Lahore Police for misbehaving with a traffic sergeant who dutifully asked him to abide traffic rules. Unarguably, being a traffic sergeant is one of the most hard-earned jobs and it gets even tougher when one is employed in high profile cities like Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Lahore, where the maltreatment of traffic sergeants is common not only by the MNAs, MPAs and bureaucrats who are consider themselves above the law but also by their family members, relatives and friends, and even their drivers and other employees.
Laws are best implemented via the trickle-down effect to set an example for all to follow. When lawmakers and lawbreakers are the same people, then everyone else will also go with the flow and laws will always be taken for granted. Consequently, institutions will struggle to be strengthened. Since our institutions are heavily under the influence of nepotism, if the person in custody, being the relative of an MNA, is treated justly, it will somehow lift the morale of traffic sergeants.
Vasdev Hemnani
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2017.
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