Johannesburg – Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, is challenging his suspension by National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola.
Placed on leave in July following allegations by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, Sibiya claims the suspension is unlawful and procedurally flawed.
“Even if you perhaps feel that I could be involved in something, there are processes, there are laws to be followed, we don’t just act nilly willy.
“It is for the judge at the ultimate end to finally say whether I’m guilty or not. But I can safely tell you that I’m actually waiting for a positive outcome. I do know that I am not involved in any wrongdoing and will be cleared,” Sibiya says.
Deputy National Commissioner Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya is contesting his suspension, maintaining his innocence and claiming that National Police Commissioner Fanie Masemola’s decision was both unlawful and procedurally flawed. @TheCitizen_News pic.twitter.com/6y1RVu72AU
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He denies any wrongdoing, including interfering with the disbanding of the Political Killings Task Team, and says he expects to be cleared.
“I never interfered.
“In [the] whole system it can’t be that I’m the only one who interfered, who did this and that, over and above the many people that are in the system with a matter that has been handled since January, with a lot of feedback being given, meetings being held, going in an out of Parliament discussing the same matter.
“Now, how do you then pin it on one individual?,” says Sibiya.
Sibiya has filed a legal challenge for the matter to be heard by a full bench of the Gauteng High Court.
He argues Masemola acted with bias, relying on untested allegations, and did not allow him an opportunity to respond.
A new court date is yet to be set.
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