Cops getting busted for taking bribes is like the oldest story ever. Three traffic officers from Murehwa just got perp-walked into a courtroom. Their names are Prosper Muchangani, Shelton Masvande, and Mercy Makarimai. Ages are thirty-six, thirty-four, and not given. They are looking at charges for abusing their jobs after getting caught with almost a thousand U.S. dollars in bribe cash.
Here is how it all went down. Anti-corruption detectives were already watching that stretch of the Harare to Domboshava road. They had a hunch cops at the checkpoints were shaking down drivers. The detectives rolled up to a spot near Nyambirai Farm at the twenty-one-kilometer mark. They saw these three officers running a stop. Masvande pulled over two kombis with specific license plates. The drivers and their conductors walked up and gave cash to Officer Makarimai. She had the official ticket book. She then handed the money off to Muchangani. Nobody got a receipt.
That is when the detectives moved in. They searched the trio and found the whole nine hundred seventy-five bucks stuffed in Muchangani's pants pockets. The ticket book was completely empty, with no fines written up for the whole day. To make it even more obvious, their names were not even on the work schedule for that shift. None of them had logged that they were carrying that kind of personal money when their duty started. The court tossed them in a cell for the night. They are supposed to ask for bail next.
Here is how it all went down. Anti-corruption detectives were already watching that stretch of the Harare to Domboshava road. They had a hunch cops at the checkpoints were shaking down drivers. The detectives rolled up to a spot near Nyambirai Farm at the twenty-one-kilometer mark. They saw these three officers running a stop. Masvande pulled over two kombis with specific license plates. The drivers and their conductors walked up and gave cash to Officer Makarimai. She had the official ticket book. She then handed the money off to Muchangani. Nobody got a receipt.
That is when the detectives moved in. They searched the trio and found the whole nine hundred seventy-five bucks stuffed in Muchangani's pants pockets. The ticket book was completely empty, with no fines written up for the whole day. To make it even more obvious, their names were not even on the work schedule for that shift. None of them had logged that they were carrying that kind of personal money when their duty started. The court tossed them in a cell for the night. They are supposed to ask for bail next.
