A timely discourse on fundamental rights [opinion]

By Adewale Kupoluyi

In our society today, many things are taken for granted. It becomes a problem when people are ignorant of the law for they are not only cheated, violators walk freely, and the law is disrespected. What happens is that chaos, indiscipline, jungle justice and lawlessness become the order of the day. To ensure that sanity, peace, and orderliness prevail in our country, the need to bring to the front burner, a platform to talk about fundamental rights, beckons.

Before we go into doing that, it is useful to look at the meaning of law from some perspectives,…