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Welcome Back!

Hello beautiful people! I want to welcome you back to my space, as I am so excited to be writing on the topic of Laws and community decisions. This is really an important issue to discuss, so let's dive in.

Why Do We Need Laws?

You see, as human beings, we all have our wills with which we made choices and decisions. And again, every single person on earth has the right to exercise their will however they choose.

The interesting thing, however, is that because we differ as individuals, there is always the possibility of conflicts arising due to the differences in choices, interests and opinions of the individuals concerned.

Where There Is No Law...

A lot of things can go wrong in a community, environment or neighbourhood where there is no law put in place to guide the actions and behaviours of the residents and non residents in that community. In fact, a lawless society is just like a time bomb waiting to explode as this can lead to chaos and insecurity.

This is why many communities and neighbourhoods are coming up with guidelines that will help to ensure that people are living in harmony, showing mutual respect and also take security precautions.

Community Guidelines In My Neighbourhood

The Community Development Association (CDA) is a vibrant association in my place of residence. It is made up of representatives chosen from all the different streets in community.

Each street has its own days of meeting which every house sends a representative to attend, whether they are landlords or tenants. Each street also has the executive Committee, from which they select two people to represent them in the larger house (CDA).

Having talked a bit about the CDA is, here are some of the guidelines and rules they have come up with.

Animals Are Not Allowed To Stray

It is so common to see people who practise farming in my community. Some have vegetable gardens in their compounds, while some raise one kind of animal or the other... cat, chicken, dog, duck, goat, sheep, turkey.

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Some of these compounds are not fenced, so sometimes someone's animal strays into a neighbour's garden to destroy the plants. This has caused a lot of quarrels among neighbours that the CDA had to come up with the directive that any animal that the owner refuses to house must be arrested and the owner penalised.

No Motorbikes Allowed After 7pm

There was a time when there were rampant cases of thefts and burglary attacks happening almost every day in my neighbourhood. The interesting thing is that the victims always reported that the culprits rode away on a motorbike.

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After several deliberations, the CDA proposed that commercial motorcycles should not be allowed into the streets after 7pm. Of course, to make that effective, each street was tasked with the project of erecting street gates which must be shut once it is 7pm.

To make this work, every house on the street had to be levied, and with the monies realised the project was done.

Public Address Systems Not Allowed At Night

In my community, there are so many religious houses of worship. In some cases you have up to two or three of the same religion or otherwise on the same street.

It is okay if the use of their public address system is only during the day while everyone is busy. But unfortunately, some use it at night for night prayers not minding that the sounds from the loudspeakers are disturbing people who are sleeping in the night.

After a lot of back and forth, the CDA was able to succeed in getting the people concerned to co-operate so that people will not resort to violence.

In Conclusion

It is interesting that despite all the guidelines and rules which everyone in my neighbourhood is supposed to adhere to, there are still people who feel that they are above the law. It is so unfortunate that there are people who will always be law breakers no matter how simple the law is.

Thank you for reading to this point. I have written this post as my contribution to today's prompt from this post by @leo.tasks

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Thank you once again.