I am all for observing the new administration’s moves from the new appointees to the initiatives for change for the better in the ways of governance like doing away with unnecessary red tape and dropping honorifics.

But it is not possible to ignore or leave unremarked the spate of killings in the war to eradicate drugs. While drug lords and drug dealers and drug financiers have much to answer for, they should be made to answer in judicial proceedings rather than in summary killings. After which, they can be righteously punished.