I appreciate the need for all government institutions in the country to maintain impartiality and professionalism when carrying out their tasks.

However, for all these institutions to enjoy reverence and respect, they need to do more than that. Impartiality could be blatantly blind and professionalism could be a pretext to camouflage lack of resolve to do the right things.

Institutions must protect and promote justice, ethics, and inclusiveness. They must hate blatant abuse of power, corruption, unfairness and discrimination.

When institutions are entrusted with certain constitutional roles, they must jealously guard the roles that deliver good governance to the people.

In this regard, it is insufficient for the institutions to deliver what the laws said. They must deliver justice that is embedded. Laws are useless if they can’t provide the intended justice.

When institutions, in the name of preserving neutrality, fail to be proactive and intervening, they are essentially blind to political, social and economic developments that are constantly evolving and changing.

I believe institutions should know when to intervene and when to back off, failing which they serve very little purpose and over time they may completely lose their relevance within our system of government.

When institutions indulge in self-preservation, they could always camouflage themselves as being professional and impartial. They are apolitical, so to speak. But being apolitical is very different from being unconcerned to the grave situations prevailing in the country. It is incumbent upon the institutions to act - to deliver checks and balances to the people.

To put it simply and succinctly, institutions must not doggedly maintain impartiality at the expense of good governance, or worse still, pro political parties in power. We want institutions to be enduring and for this to happen, they must proactively and ‘interferingly’ perform their entrusted functions.