By Faraz Shauketaly
It appears dear man, your work is really being cut out for you by the Drug Barons in our promisingly and hauntingly beautiful land.
Your prisons are overflowing – several times the legit and acceptable humane capacity.
If I had been writing to Gothabya (the chap who ran away after consciously hurting the farmers and the Muslims) I would have pitched it differently.
I would have said that prison overcrowding was inherently part n parcel of the sentence. That would have been his justification. Sad bad and mad as he was.
As you are much more humane than that, it is my knowledge that you are painfully aware of the harsh bleak not so “Nuwa type” conditions in our prisons.
Point is you need to distinguish between the addictive substances and the “oh not so” ones.
Weed or Ganja is not addictive in the same way as say ICE or cocaine.
So we need to change this in order that “they” can be given an affordable fine and kept away from remand prison.
This will change the population in prison and free up more time for investigators. For starters.
You do see the point don’t you Comrade Aravinda?
We need you to ask Nalinda and Harshana to get together and break these offences down so the already stretched judiciary can better manage their assets and resources.
Comrade Aravinda remember that in this world of complexities simple things become realities.
