Conning Sunday Vision Reporters?

I almost forgot this. I think, one should sue some Sunday Vision reporters for conning/blackmailing. How can it be legal or according to the work ethical standards if reporters run around pretending to be traffic police fining drivers etc.?

This must be illegal even in this part of the world. Furthermore, it was just not necessary to commit this (probably) punishable act. By mere observation and personal experience the reporters could write their story. But no, instead of purely reporting facts based on observations, they followed their "new investigative approach", which started some weeks ago. Please have in mind last week’s ridiculous story of how lesbians “convert” innocent and godly young girls to homosexuals. I wonder whether that is even remotely in line with their ethical standards.


The summarising article as published in The Sunday Vision from Sunday, 22nd May 2005:

Sunday Vision exposes traffic bribery

By Vision reporter

"UGANDAN drivers are helping the Police to stay on top of the corruption charts.
Following the recent National Service Delivery Survey 2004 that named the Police as the most corrupt government department three Sunday Vision reporters went to work as traffic police officers for two days.

The investigation uncovered an intricate web of bribery involving drivers offering unsolicited bribes and police officers demanding them outright. Some of the methods used involve a driver or groups of drivers working on a particular stage, plying a specific route or operating under a particular organisation making monthly deposits to a particular officer or group of officers.

Some breakdown service operators usually stationed near police stations also work as middlemen channelling bribes from the offending drivers to the traffic officers. There are also after-work meetings between drivers and police officers, usually in drinking places."