Dear judge Mbadwa,
My lord, I have been forced to respond to suggestions that the Tribunal, too, is compromised as the Nyasaland bench which has solicited Kamasulira’s outbursts.
You know Kamasulira is part of the friends of the Tribunal and I believe he would not hesitate to point at the rot happening in your court.
But one thing that has fascinated me this week, my lord, is that despite the goodwill the Kamasulira tide might have catalysed, the majority who offered hope that they will take the bull by its horns are just as clueless.
My lord, I know allegations remain allegations until they are proven otherwise in the court of law but these ought to be taken seriously.
We know the Nyasaland Legislative Council’s Legal Affairs Committee made a statement that they had taken a keen interest in issues that Kamasulira had raised only to hear honourable Petulo Munda changing tone after realising that they were somewhat not equipped to carry the exercise.
Now the Nyasaland bench itself, in the true sense of the conservatism that rule the Judiciary claims it needs to receive detailed and specific complaints.
My lord, we know that by their nature, the court live in the world where they are moved and when nothing has been done, they hear no evil or see no evil.
Perhaps this is where they are getting it wrong,, My lord. We cannot hide under the cave for so long to preserve our purity when we know there is no system that is perfect.
My lord, I know the fact that Kamasulira is asking the bench to look itself hard in the mirror does not mean everyone else has become soiled.
I know lots of judge Mbadwa’s friends at the bench, who are men of integrity, and I would vouch for them that they can never be compromised.
But sadly the truth of the matter is that moles do appear even in the well-structured system as long as we are dealing with fallible human beings.
My lord, a workable system should self-regulate and not wait for outsiders to point at weaknesses they see from a jaundiced perspective.
Sometimes we need to be proactive and give a benefit of doubt to a deafening cacophony of discontent that has been thrown at us by investigating the veracity of the claims.
For sure, we cannot pretend that everything is working perfectly at the Nyasaland bench because as the Nyasaland Law Society has always argued, the slow pace in disposing of cases coupled with issues of misconduct among judicial officers is derailing wheels of justice.
I have heard somewhere an argument that it’s the entire system that is rotten to the core; hence, we do not have the moral high ground upon which we can censure the Judiciary.
My lord, we can only starts somewhere and we will be ignoring those complaints at our own peril.
Let us put our house in order,
Regards,
John Citizen.
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