COPS GRAB E42 000, ‘ABORTION PILLS’ FROM UGANDAN MAN

MBABANE – A sum of E42 000 belonging to a Ugandan man, suspected to have been obtained through the sale of abortion pills, has been confiscated by the police.
It was a double blow for Kalema Aggrey as the money was discovered in his possession after his motor vehicle was involved in an accident.

The substantial amount of money that was found in Aggrey’s possession raised suspicions to the law enforcers such that they took him to his residence, where during a search, the pills were discovered. The alleged abortion pills were also seized by the police officers.
 The Ugandan national was eventually arrested and charged with contravening the Immigration Act in that he was in the country unlawfully.

For being in the country unlawfully, he was fined E500 but the money and the pills were not released as the police were adamant that they were part of criminal activities.
Through his attorney, Simo Simelane, Aggrey has since filed an urgent application at the High Court where he is seeking an order for the release of the confiscated money and sachets of the pills.
The national commissioner of police is the respondent in the matter

Giving a background of the matter, Aggrey stated that on January 10, 2019 near Beauty Court, Ngwane Park in Manzini, in the morning, he visited his girlfriend who resided there.
He informed the court that he was en route from collecting his payment in respect of a motor vehicle he had sold to a friend.  He claimed that the motor vehicle was sold for the sum of E41 000.
“I parked my motor vehicle which I was driving on the day adjacent to the road and walked across to check my girlfriend.

Before I alighted, I safely tucked away the sum of E41 0000 contained in a bag under the driver’s seat, which was in the sum of E41 000 and E1 000 I had on me,” submitted the applicant (Aggrey).
He submitted that on his return to the motor vehicle to his residence, a truck bumped into his car in the rear end.

He said resisting the negotiating advances and overtures of the truck driver, he called the police to attend to the accident.
According to Aggrey, during this time a sizeable crew made up of local residents, had gathered around the accident scene.
He asserted that sensing the susceptibility of his money to theft, he retrieved the bag from the car and kept it with him while waiting for the arrival of the police.

Fate

“As fate would have it, the police arrived, made up of traffic police officers and to my surprise in the company of police officers from Lukhozi.
“The members of Lukhozi enquired on the whereabouts of the money, which I politely pointed out to them inside the bag I was carrying which they took,” said the applicant.

Aggrey narrated that after a brief interview in relation to the accident, he was advised by the police officers that they would have to search his room.  He said he immediately obliged and went with them to his place of abode.
“Significant to mention is that my cellphone was seized from me subsequent to which the police dialled my contacts apparently to ferret out any sort of evidence that would link the receivers of the calls with the money and me,” said the applicant.
The Ugandan national said on arrival at his house, the police ransacked the place and picked upon some sachets of Cytotec pills, whose number he could not recall as he had already consumed some. 
He said he had kept the pills on the chest of drawers next to his bed.

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