{"id":27860,"date":"2016-08-19T03:06:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/senegalese-woman-fined-after-filming-police-bribe\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T03:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:06:40","slug":"senegalese-woman-fined-after-filming-police-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/senegalese-woman-fined-after-filming-police-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese woman fined after filming police bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A Senegalese court has fined a woman $250 (\u00a3190) and given her a one-month suspended prison term for paying a bribe to a policeman, despite the fact she filmed him demanding the money.}<\/p>\n<p>Her video, which she filmed in secret and posted on social media, shows the officer writing out a traffic ticket which he eats after a $5 bribe is paid.<\/p>\n<p>It led to the policeman&#8217;s prosecution &#8211; a rare event in Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>He was also fined $250 and given a two-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, Sokhna Bousso Gaye, and her friend were driving through the capital, Dakar, when they were stopped by the policeman, Assane Diallo, last month.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows him saying in the local Wolof language that he is going to have to fine them $10 for a traffic violation, which they would have to pay at a police station.<\/p>\n<p>But he ends up accepting $5 and eating the ticket that he was writing out.<\/p>\n<p>The other woman in the car was arrested on Wednesday and will also be charged with corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Nadege Sinarinzi in Dakar says it is common for people to pay bribes to policemen for minor traffic violations to avoid more serious punishments.<\/p>\n<p>But social media is now being used to highlight corruption and anti-social behaviour, our reporter says.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a taxi driver in Dakar was imprisoned for 45 days after being filmed driving over a pedestrian bridge, she says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14373 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90835224_eating.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Assane Diallo ate the ticket after accepting the $5 bribe\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A Senegalese court has fined a woman $250 (\u00a3190) and given her a one-month suspended prison term for paying a bribe to a policeman, despite the fact she filmed him demanding the money.} Her video, which she filmed in secret and posted on social media, shows the officer writing out a traffic ticket which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27860"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27860"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}