"Smell of Power"

The government hurriedly launched a social media campaign on Friday to gain political mileage out of the arrest of NPP MP Asoka Ranwala involved in a road accident.

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Its propagandists boasted that the rule of law had been restored, and everyone was now equal before the law. But they were left red-faced when Ranwala was granted bail soon afterwards. Worse, it was revealed that the police had not made Ranwala undergo an alcohol test immediately after the accident on Thursday night and waited until Friday noon to do so.

An otherwise articulate Police Spokesman ASP F.U. Wootler cut a pathetic figure when journalists asked him why no alcohol test had been conducted on former Speaker Ranwala immediately after the accident to determine whether he was drunk. The police have trotted out some lame excuses for dragging their feet. Thanks to their subservience to the ruling party, the police always have to defend the indefensible whenever a government politician commits a transgression.