THE Human Rights Commission (HRC) has maintained its proposal for all offences to be made bailable, saying institutional incapacity to fairly administer justice shouldn’t be the basis for violating suspects’ rights. Last week, Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe said Zambia had not yet gotten to a stage where it could make all offences bailable. Haimbe, in response to HRC’s proposal for all offences to be made bailable and bondable, said the country had no capacity to use mechanisms used in other countries to track those who were facing non-bailable offences if they were granted bail. But responding to Haimbe’s remarks in an interview, Friday, Muleya said suspects did not have to suffer the consequences of institutional inefficiencies. “The fact that there’s...