Editorial
Welcoming PM on return
Public inconvenience should have been avoided
THE ruling party leaders and workers turned out in large numbers on the city streets on Monday afternoon to receive the prime minister who was returning from the UN General Assembly session in New York where she was given a prestigious award. We rejoice over the fact that the PM has been accorded the South-South Cooperation Award for her contribution to poverty alleviation, which she has rightly dedicated to the country.
That said, we cannot but point to the practice of organising such a huge event without regard to the inconvenience it may have caused to the commuting public. For in their exuberance over the PM's winning the award, the AL members rode roughshod over the city's fragile traffic system creating a long tailback.
The reception in effect turned out to be a cause for public hardship, which it need not have been.
Experience suggests that massive receptions be not staged on the day of arrival itself. Public receptions can be held at a designated place with proper planning going into managing the event at a later date. Evidently, such considerations did not receive due importance in the planning of Monday's event.
Hopefully, the government would keep an eye to this in the future to avoid an occasion of joy turning unwittingly into one of public suffering.
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