jimmy1 wrote:i was arrested for not wearing the safety belt early on a Monday exactly 3weeks ago, around 6:4am, i took the car to the cop station as ordered. I knew the process of appearing in court would be too long so i opted to 'pay'the officer in charge of traffic 1k instead of spending the whole day in court cells just to lead guilty and pay 500/.Until spot fines are introduced, just 'pay' the cops if you have the cash, it save s a lot of time and energy
@jimmy1; No. Please, NO!
The road to heaven is narrow and has many hurdles. Paying off a cop.....no, let's say it like it is: BRIBING a cop is not the solution! We must try to solve the problem by getting the system changed.
Bringing it out in the open is one step; and as stated by @Gordon Gekko above, a wazuan managed to get the issue published in the "highest circulation newspaper in Eastern and Central Africa" - The Nation.
I am quite sure that even if the CJ doesn't read wazua, he surely does the Nation... and if not, one of his friends, or officers must have seen it.
FYI: I recently went to get a patient discharged from a hospital and found long queue. The cashier was serving an average of 2 customers per hour! So, I went to the admin office and asked to talk to the CFO. He wasn't in, but one of the senior officers in the finance office came to see me and I explained the problem.
He offered to fast-track my case but I said no: that will not solve the problem. So he asked me to give him a few minutes.
He went to the cashier's cubical top find out what was the matter. It turned out that "known" customers were jumping the queue through the back door -literary since the door to the cubical is behind the cashier!
The senior officer ordered the cashier to stop processing bills coming from the back door and only deal with those from people on the queue. The back door was also closed and the cashier told not to allow anyone in.
Result: the queue started moving pretty fast. I was about 10th in line by the time I made my complaint and was served withing 30min.
Again I was: bribing the cop does NOT solve the problem.