COPS USED ME TO CATCH KIDNAP SUSPECTS - PLUMBER

The team of police officers behind investigating the high profile kidnapping case. At the centre is National Commissioner of Police Isaac Magagula.

MBABANE - A 62-year-old man says he now lives in fear for his life following the arrest of three Asian nationals who are suspected to have kidnapped businessman Almor Oliveira, as he claims the police manipulated him into pointing out the suspects’ whereabouts.

The man (whose name has been withheld to protect his identity) says the police have exposed him to great danger because they used his mobile phone to contact the Asians since they (Asians) do not answer their mobile phones if the dialling number is unfamiliar to them.
The Asians are 44-year-old Chinese national Qing Ming He, Vietnamese woman Dao Thanta Hue and third suspect Zheng Renmel (42), who is a Chinese woman. The latter was admitted to E5 000 bail on Wednesday while her co-accused duo remain in custody.

In an interview with the Times SUNDAY, the man claimed to have been phoned by the police under the guise that they were potential clients who wanted to give him a plumbing tender after they had learnt that he is a plumber by profession.
He said they asked where he was and he directed them to his homestead in Mbabane where they duly arrived after having told him that they were driving from Lobamba.

“When they arrived, I immediately realised that they were police officers. They were three and they identified themselves as Sihlongonyane, Mabuza and Dlamini. He said they did not identify themselves over the phone as police officers because they were afraid I would become evasive. They told me they had a few questions for me and then showed me mobile phone numbers that were written in a notebook and asked if I was familiar with them,” the man related.
He said he did not recognise any of the numbers and then one of the officers allegedly took his (man’s) mobile phone and buzzed one of the numbers that were in the notebook.

He said this was after they had asked him if he had worked with ‘white’ people and he responded to the affirmative, identifying Indian nationals and another businessman who runs a plumbing business.
“After the police officer had used my phone to buzz one of the numbers, the call was returned and I was told to answer,” the man claimed.

His response to the cops, he said, after having heard the voice on the other end of the phone, was that the caller was a Chinese national.
“I told them that judging from the voice; the caller was one Chinese woman I used to do maintenance work for in a house she used to rent in Ezulwini.

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