The ManicaPost
Liberty Dube and Tendai Gukutikwa Weekender Correspondents
AN explosive striptease show by a Harare-based stripper last Saturday was brought to a screeching halt at Legends Night Club in the sprawling suburb of Chikanga after cops swooped on the female stripper as she was entertaining revellers in her birth suit.
The stripper, Priscilla Mutandabare, was only clad in a choker around her neck.
The arrest of the stripper left scores of fun lovers whose eyes were glued at the sexy blonde disappointed. Priscilla had jumped on stage just after midnight disappointed.
Police stationed in Chikanga, who included Constables Forget Mutadi, Mupfurutsa, Mutimudye and Tichaona Chiwoto walked into the bar around midnight and pulled a shocker.
Priscilla, who had left nothing to imagination on her body, was wriggling her waist, swaying in her birth suit, gyrating on a pole, displaying her privates much to the amusement of scores of revellers, particularly male spectators, before police whisked her away from the stage.
Legends Night Club is housed above the Legends Grocery and Butchery
The 22-year-old stripper appeared before Mutare magistrate, Mr Innocent Bepura on Monday, charged with contravening Section 77 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:27, otherwise known as public indecency.
Mr Fletcher Karombe prosecuted.
“I am a stripper and I have a licence, but I left it in Harare. I don’t know if it is valid in Mutare,” she said.
She revealed that she is a mother of one.
She was asked to pay a fine of $50 or risk spending 20 days behind bars.
She was ordered to pay the fine on or before March 30, 2017. Mr Bepura said her stripping licence was only valid in Harare and if it wasn’t valid in the capital city she should have come with it to Mutare.
Soon after the court session, she jumped into a cab, shying away from the long lenses of The Weekender camera though it was too late.
Although strippers have become popular among male patrons in the eastern border city because of their erotic and raunchy performances, it is illegal for one to strip naked in front of people.
“Stripping naked is an offence. That is public indecency. We will not hesitate to arrest those who commit the offence,” said deputy Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Luxson Chananda.
