IN the first part of this comment, we said Parliament may have acted with good intentions, especially on sexual offences, theft of medicines, medical supplies and minerals. But we also pointed out something that people may ignore at this stage but will become problematic in the long run when the law that is targeted at offenders starts to punish innocent people. “No bail” sounds good, but what if a person accused of stealing a goat is actually innocent? That is where the deeper concern begins. The country must now think beyond public anger and ask a harder legal question: who exactly is this law punishing? As we stated yesterday, the truth is that we are not talking about convicts. We...