When shall we respect court orders? [Archives:2008/1135/Opinion]
By: Taha Al-Ameri
There are numerous negative phenomena standing in the way of our national progress and prosperity. However, we are supposed to work on overcoming and eliminating such phenomena in order not to take us to the situation of condemning ourselves by ourselves in event such phenomena survive. These phenomena requires strong will and determination to positively deal with them, and by the phenomena here I mean the effective court orders passed by the competent judicial authorities in favor of particular individuals or national agencies, particularly the orders issued through a consensus by the various competent judicial references.
The matter gets worse when we find out that some national agencies and sovereign institutions are standing in the way of such judiciary orders, and therefore object to their execution in one way or another.
This phenomenon must disappear from our life immediately and by force through the commitment of each sovereign institution to apply what is issued by the judicial authorities, which in turn have to verify that their orders are seriously dealt with, appreciated and respected by the national sovereignty institutions. These institutions have to demonstrate the ideal example of respecting all the judicial rulings and regulations, notably the ones that took much time until they got passed.
The strangest thing is that the national agencies and government employees are parties in such cases, and instead of valuing their efforts, we find that these parties usually attempt to dispense with their efforts in a way lacking even the simplest values. It is this way the government employee or worker finds himself/herself obliged to join a judicial battle, thereby directing the various judicial agencies to execute any enacted orders, but at the same time, he or she is found to refuse or object to what is issued by the judiciary.
Through this behavior, our national sovereign and autonomous institutions appear as if they want to confirm to us and the entire world that we in Yemen – state and society – don't respect judiciary, nor do we abide by its orders. It is this way a particular agency or company appears to behave as it is over the law, thus damaging the progressive course of the civilized experience we are enjoying. I don't know how people in charge of these agencies and companies think, notably when standing in the way of a government worker, who was subjected to an incident while in duty. Instead of being loyal with the victim, any government worker injured while on duty, their sole goal is to get rid of this victim.
When judiciary does justice for the injured worker and directs the relevant agencies to apply any orders it issues, we usually find that some individuals ignore the judiciary's role, and any orders or rulings it passes, in a manner raising multiple questions about the real motives behind such positions. We do also question what reasons prevented a government agency from executing final court orders passed against it and in favor of a particular citizen or worker.
Had we but realized that the official institutions and their staff should be the first party to respect judiciary; we would have been up to the responsibility while dealing with any court orders. There are some hypocrites who depict to certain officials matters in their own way with the motive of expressing allegiance to the state and caring about its interests, but in fact, their action pays much harm to the state and the public interest as well, thereby showing no respect for the judiciary or any abidance by its orders.
On the contrary, we find ourselves face to face with some patriotic personalities who did their best for the homeland's sake and reached several successes, but by ignoring or underestimating a court order, they destroy all what they have so far built in their homeland, as well as harm their reputation and prestige in the national memory.
Source: Al-Thawra State-run Daily.
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