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Public relations or not, continue with arrests

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been accused of many things. Chief of which has been the claim that his fight against corruption is a public relations(PR) exercise, and that his charge sheets are too long.

He is said to arrest suspects on Fridays as a way of ensuring they can only be arraigned in court on a Monday; only for him to ask for extensions to 'complete investigations'. Since I am not a lawyer, I will not argue the merits or the demerits of such charges.

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