Our traffic police are not clean
handed. This doesn’t mean all traffic police are corrupt. There are many
ethical and professional and country-loving traffic police as opposed to the
corrupt ones. I have been traveling from Addis to the South region and back to
Addis many times. It is a very common practice for the drivers to give Birr 50 or 100 to the traffic police to have a ‘safe’ pass besides overloading passengers,missing
dispatch paper(‘mewicha’),driving above the speed limit, driving a technically
deficient car, overpricing the transportation fee above the tariff,etc. These
faults of the driver are ignored as seen in return to the Birr 50 or 100 bribe.The
drivers have told me that the traffic police do collect the money from each
public transport car. What an ashaming practice! If our law enforcement organs
are corrupt, then who can enforce the law? Will these corrupt ones will enforce
it? No. A serious measure has to be taken on this problem. Let you share us
your opinions on what measure should be taken to get rid of this problem.
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Showing posts with label legal profession and ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal profession and ethics. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
Probono Service of some Ethiopian Federal Lawyers
As it is well known,lawyering is not a solid for profit business.It is rather a profession by which the lawyer gives legal advice representing clients at courts of law or administrative tribunals and in return,gets remuneration or payment for the services delivered.Even though payment of money is involved in the contract of service,it doesn't mean a lawyer needs payment in every case.Since lawyering is a profession one pursues to stand for justice,lawyers must give free legal service to those who can't afford to pay.Actually,it is being done in Ethiopia too.In Ethiopia,every federal lawyer must give 50 hours of free service to those who can't pay.But the problem is not on the time or hours spent but the problem of not giving equal weight to paid and free services.If it is free service,some lawyers prepare poor statements of claim and/or defense,miss court sessions and and even if they appear,they come unprepared.This is unethical. It needs correction.What is your opinion on the issue? P
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