{{Police is holding a commuter taxi driver for attempting to bribe a police officer with bottles of wine after the officer confiscated his documents over traffic-related offences.}}
According to the National Police website, the suspect, a 20-year old taxi driver is currently detained at Muhima Police Station.
The Police officer confiscated the suspect’s documents last Saturday in Kigali for overloading.
On January 16, the suspect’s (name withheld) driving licence was confiscated at Mulindi in Gicumbi district and fined for overloading.
It is said that the suspect did not clear the fine as is the norm, to collect his driving licence but continued to drive without it and continued committing the same traffic offence. He was again caught and fined for the same traffic offence early last week.
When he was stopped in Kigali on February 1 for overloading for the third time, the suspect tried to use the two fines receipt he had been given weeks earlier to avoid being fined for again.
The Police officer, however, confiscated the receipts and ordered the suspect to take the vehicle to Kigali Metropolitan traffic Police, which he never did but instead continued operating until February 4 when he pulled the illegal move to try to seduce the officer to give him the seized receipts.
The officer was in his office at Kigali Metropolitan traffic Police at the time the suspect tried to bribe him with bottles of wine.
Normally, if a driver is charged for committing a traffic offence and fined, they are supposed to pay the fines within three days.
The Traffic and Road Safety Spokesperson, Superintendent (SP), Jean Marie Vianney Ndushabandi commended the officer for acting professionally.
“Confiscated documents should be acquired through legal channels but not by means of bribery. Police officers know that corruption is zero tolerance in the force and the public should know that whoever tries such unlawful moves will be caught to face justice,” Supt. Ndushabandi warned.
RNP
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