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News24 reports that the police's national Crime Intelligence (CI) division has been plunged deeper into a leadership crisis with the suspensions of five high-ranking officers on Wednesday and Thursday.
This comes less than a week after police commissioner General Khehla Sitole moved to suspend CI boss Lieutenant General Peter Jacobs and just two days after deputy national commissioner Major General Sindile Mfazi assured CI commanders around the country that there was "no crisis". Sources have confirmed that Chief Financial Officer Major General Josias Lekalakala, as well as Intelligence Plan and Monitoring head Brigadier Deon Lombard, had been served with letters of suspension on Thursday. Three other colonels in the administrative arm of the unit were placed on suspension alongside them. Apparently, the leadership bloodbath related to the use of the Secret Services Account - a shadowy slush fund used to bankroll covert operations and pay informers - that had been accessed to purchase Covid-19 PPE. All are understood to be facing misconduct charges relating to a R1 million purchase, while Lombard and Lekalakala are understood to be facing additional charges over the approval of a planning document. The rash of suspensions has rendered offices which were pivotal to the functioning of the CI Unit vacant, sources said, adding that it threatened to bring operations "to a standstill".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jeff Wicks & Kyle Cowan at News24
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