Legal Dilemmas

By Ayuk Kure No one could tell precisely what had come about but whatever happened must have been really horrible. Trouble smelled everywhere and gloom loomed. Even, the songs of freedom which had been the bane of the morning had ceased and those who had gone to witness the epoch making event at the Kwambana square had suddenly returned. Men of the army had now begun to mount major road blocks in the country and the police had gone to join the Customs Service at the borders and the city gates to secure them. Those who had been around when the broadcast was made on the radio said that the Minister of Information and Telecommunication, Bitrus Kwali had ordered that all the borders of the country be kept under lock and key until further instructions were given for their opening. Men of the Zugarian army were to immediately mount all the major road blocks in the country and the air force was to maintain surveillance on the nation’s air ways from 2100 GMT to about 1800 GMT the n