Senior cop splashes $6 500 on Chihuri’s book

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A RECENTLY-PROMOTED police commissioner, Rabson Mpofu on Friday night pulled all plugs to beat business executives and fellow cops in a bid to purchase Commissioner-General of Police Augustine Chihuri’s new book, The history of policing in Zimbabwe — for a whopping $6 500.

A RECENTLY-PROMOTED police commissioner, Rabson Mpofu on Friday night pulled all plugs to beat business executives and fellow cops in a bid to purchase Commissioner-General of Police Augustine Chihuri’s new book, The history of policing in Zimbabwe — for a whopping $6 500.

BY XOLISANI NCUBE

Mpofu, who was in June promoted to the post of commissioner responsible for planning and policy formulation, from being a senior assistant commissioner, refused to be outpaced and went for the killer. He bid for his boss’s book at $6 500, beating a businessman who was competing with him in the bid, much to the amusement of fellow cops. He went home with the highly-priced manuscript which chronicles the history of policing in Zimbabwe.

And for his children, Mpofu was also given a novel Chaotic — penned by Samantha Chihuri — daughter to the police boss, which was launched together with The History of Policing in Zimbabwe.

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The book authored by the police boss is based on his thesis for a doctorate from the Mount Carmel Institute of Business Intelligence. It narrates the history of policing in pre-colonial to post independence Zimbabwe.

The book touches on how police officers, usually accused of being agents of Zanu PF, handled the emotive land reform exercise which has been a political trump card for the party in successive election campaigns since the birth of the MDC in 1999.

The launch of the two books was presided over by Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo and was attended by a number of Cabinet ministers who included, State Security minister Kembo Mohadi, Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Education minister Lazarus Dokora, among others.

Also in attendance were ex-police bosses who have joined politics, such as Buhera West MP, Oliver Mandipaka and Marondera East legislator Jeremiah Chiwetu.

Addressing the audience at the function, Chombo said all police officers and government institutions “should find time to read it” so that they could understand the vision and thrust the police boss had for the organisation he leads.

Chombo lauded the Chihuri family for supporting both father and daughter in their feat of producing the two books.

Chihuri’s daughter is a Form Four student at Chisipite Senior School. Her book is a work of fiction based on a story of a young girl who is forced to leave her country for a foreign land and adapts to the demands of the new environment.