One morning, mr. Ojuri was on his way to a bank in his neighbourhood to make enquiries. He was arrested for wandering and subsequently detained for seven days by the police without trail or access to his relatives. From the above passage, it could be said that, in a society where this incident happened, there is absence of?

Civic Education (2017) Past Question

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2 older comments kept for context.

isaac alamu

13 December 2020

OPTION "B"is correct "RULE OF LAW".firstly what is RULE OF LAW?rule of law is the absolute or supremacy before the law.in this cases all the citizen of the country are EQUAL before the LAW.and respect it.for example the president of a country can't say that because his is the president that he wanted to kill someone because the person talk to him unpolitely..because the person has his or her RIGHT TO LIFE.and as we all knew that nobody can deprived us of our RIGHT.what the story above means that EVERYBODY IS EQUAL UNDER THE LAW,NO MATTER YOUR POSITION.

Victor Titus

18 October 2020

The rule of law; "The authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes."