Posted on 06/07/2011 6:18:50 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- A police officer in Zimbabwe who has languished at a police detention barracks for a month for using a toilet reserved for President Robert Mugabe will learn his fate at end of this week following an appeal to his boss.
Alois Mabhunu, a homicide detective was sentenced last week to 10 days after he was convicted by an internal police court for responding to a call of nature in a toilet which had been reserved for Mugabe at a trade fair in Zimbabwe's second biggest city.
On Monday, a relative of Mabhunu said the officer was not represented by a lawyer at the hearing, but is hoping the police commissioner-general, Augustine Chihuri, will overturn the guilty verdict this week. He said he had heard that Chihuri will look at the appeal on Thursday or Friday.Besides serving the 10-day sentence, Mabhunu, a homicide detective, has been demoted and will no longer allowed to wear plain clothes.
Contacted for comment, Wayne Bvudzijena police spokesperson on Monday said the issue of Mabhunu was an internal, purely disciplinary matter on which he couldn't comment. Bvudzijen said Mabhunu failed to obey instructions and the law had to take its course.
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Just whose throne is it?
Didn’t somebody recently post a story about the last few white farmers finally throwing in the towel and leaving Zimbabwe? With news stories like this, you wonder what took them so long to come to this decision.
Ah yes, Mugabe, “man of the people.”
There’s an eternal pit awaiting this evil dictator...
so he sits in jail for a month over a 10 day sentence?
what am I missing here?
I know... this is our Future under Obama
When ya gotta go.... ya gotta go! What a crime!
Maybe they’ll just stick his head in the toilet and give him a swirly!
I have a theory: God takes the good young. The evil stay around. My theory is that God wants to harvest the good before they screw up. The evil, He's trying to give them every chance.
One Monday morning, the Captain called us all in to declare "There's a hair on the Colonel's toilet seat!", and he wanted a confession (which he didn't get, of course)
future?
I have a theory: God takes the good young. The evil stay around. My theory is that God wants to harvest the good before they screw up. The evil, He's trying to give them every chance.
LOL.
Have often wondered similar things.
Headed
Back to bed.
Ha!
is? or has?
(re: your tagline)
Precisely the double meaning I was striving for.
A homicide detective in Zimbabwe? Man, you talk about job security! That whole country is a target-rich environment for him.
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