According to a recent report by CityPress, a claim was made that the current Crime Intelligence was appointed unlawfully.
Dumisani Khumalo is appointed to ensure that the crimes and corruption committed by the top police are never probed.
This devastating claim is included in an affidavit submitted on March 3 by Brigadier Tiyani Hlungwani, the suspended Secret Services Account head.
Hlungwani claims in it that Khumalo, who was appointed in December, was elevated without following SAPS standard appointment processes.
According to Hlungwani's affidavit:
I believe that Lt. General Khumalo has been tasked to deal with all the whistleblowers and witnesses in these cases, and I happen to be one of the whistleblowers and witnesses in these cases. I know one whistleblower whose frivolous disciplinary lawsuit is being revived by Lt. General Khumalo.
Khumalo is not pursuing the case of corruption, fraud, and theft of PPEs and procurement of grabbers worth over R102 million against this senior officer and his involvement in the memorandum of understanding with the British to collect intelligence inside the country.
I made several attempts to address the issue with senior managers to no avail. Still, instead, I was victimised, harassed, arrested, subjected to frivolous disciplinary processes, hauled before a number of expeditious processes and transferred illegally out of my position. This is still continuing and as I write this statement, I have not been given work by my supervisors for almost four years now,
Hlungwani said he was a whistleblower and a witness in instances involving Cele's other senior cops, including the national commissioner, Masemola, KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Mkhwanazi, and Jacobs, a former acting criminal intelligence department chief, among others. Kistiah is a merchant who marketed police bullet vests.
Hlungwani added that when Khumalo led a political mass murders task team in KwaZulu-Natal, he did not have a valid security clearance. Still, he was given access to top-secret classified documents, such as intelligence reports into the murder of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa, which involved informants, and other covert, highly commercial secrets.
However, there is a counterargument to what Hlungwani claims, specifically about the perceived affidavit.
Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said the SAPS management was unaware of such an affidavit.
The SAPS management is not privy to documents that form part of internal processes. If such an affidavit exists, it should be submitted to the relevant authorities for investigation. At this stage, we cannot comment on the contents thereof, which may form part of an ongoing process. It is also prudent to note that a number of the issues mentioned in this affidavit are the subject of ongoing investigations both criminally and departmentally. As such, the SAPS doesn’t comment on ongoing investigations.
It is quite unclear what will happen now that such news has been made well-known. Members of Parliament wanted President Cyril Ramaphosa to axe the current Police Minister, which he ignored. Could this aid him in making a decision, or could the above claims by Hlungwani surface ensure that the current Police Minister is ousted? This is a developing story, and details will follow.
SOURCE: CityPress
