THE LAW 101: They cannot be forced to join clean-up exercise

Even if a law makes a cleanup exercise mandatory, it will never pass constitutional muster if it empowers security agencies or task forces to act like slave masters wielding whips over citizens.

The reality: a failure of leadership, not a shortage of lawLet those of us who care about the soul of this nation be crystal clear: our sanitation crisis and the ritual flooding disasters are, first and foremost, a catastrophic failure of leadership and law enforcement.

Even where a local assembly invokes a valid by-law to make participation mandatory, individuals who refuse to comply can only be dealt with through due process.