FINGERPRINTS ROT: POLICE EXECUTIVE REPORTED TO ACC

MBABANE – Heads are set to roll in the upper echelons of power in the Royal Swaziland Police (RSP) service.

The executive of the police service is alleged to be involved in the fingerprints deleting scandal.
This is if the submission made by Senior Crown Counsel Macebo Nxumalo yesterday is anything to go by.
Nxumalo told the High Court that the issue of senior police officers having allegedly instructed junior officers manning the criminal data system in the police service to delete criminal records has been referred to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). 

Former police officer and murder suspect Lucky ‘Obama’ Matsenjwa, who has been charged with the murder of Mduduzi ‘Schaza’ Matsebula, alleged that he thought it was normal to delete criminal records in the police service because his superiors allegedly instructed him to do so.

Nxumalo said Matsenjwa was a witness and will record a statement with the ACC regarding the involvement of the police executive in this case.
The Crown counsel further said this case should not be viewed as if Matsenjwa was being victimised in that the Crown was letting go of the ‘bigger fish’ at the expense of the ‘smaller fish’.

He submitted that Matsenjwa should answer on what he did without being instructed. The senior Crown counsel mentioned that the DPP had the discretion as to who should be prosecuted and who should be made a State witness.

By this, Nxumalo was responding to a submission by Matsenjwa to the effect that fellow officer Ngcebo Vermaak should have also been charged with the murder of ‘Schaza’ since they allegedly acted in common purpose. He said the suspect was correct to make that suggestion.

‘Schaza’ directly implicated Matsenjwa in the corruption case. Senior Crown Counsel Ncamsile Masuku pointed out that ‘Schaza’ was a middleman who allegedly received some of the monies from the people who wanted their criminal records to be deleted from the system. Masuku was responding to Advocate Mduduzi Mabila’s submission that ‘Schaza’ was no different from the other witnesses.

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