Legal Dilemmas

By Ayuk Kure The soldiers who had been stationed on the roads were dog-tired and from what it seemed, ‘Operation Bulala’ had failed. They had been on the road one whole month and still there was no sign of the assassin. They had deployed Operation Bulala thinking that the tactic would fish out the culprits easily. Alas, it yielded no results.  The modus of Operation Bulala was simply to stop every moving object on the highway for a scrupulous search. In this view, the soldiers not only stopped pedestrians and vehicles plying the roads, they asked for IDs and sought to know where the people or the vehicles were from. If they were foreigners, they were immediately bundled into the military vans and taken to the barracks for staid questioning. Both the search and the questioning had no regard for gender. Male officers spearheaded the process and utilized the opportunity maximally. For their female victims, the search always ended on the chest. Each time they got to that juncture