KOMBI CONDUCTOR SCARED AFTER ASSAULT BY COPS

MANZINI – After being insulted and bashed by police officers in full view of members of the public using open hands, kicks and a gun, he now fears for his life.

This is what Sanele Shiba, the kombi conductor, who appears in a video clip being insulted and brutally assaulted by three uniformed police officers from the Traffic Department, said in an interview. The incident took place last Monday at Mhlaleni, Matsapha in the Manzini Region and it was during the strike action by public transport workers, which turned violent. Speaking to this publication over the weekend, the kombi conductor, said on the aforesaid day, they were walking towards Mhlaleni along the MR3 Highway and a police van found them asking for lunch donations from their colleagues who were on duty on the day. Shiba was found at his home, in a location known to this publication but will not be revealed because he fears for his safety.

Chase

He said when the police van stopped, they ran away and some of the police officers gave chase. However, he said after outpacing them, the law enforcers returned to their car and left. Thereafter, he said they continued with their journey. When they arrived at Mhlaleni, he said they saw the police van coming from New Village direction and he saw one police officer pointing at them. Thereafter, he said the police officer jumped out of the car and ran towards them. Seeing that the law enforcer’s intention was to catch them, he claimed that even though they did not know what wrong they had done, they ran away again. However, he said, while they were fleeing  from the police officer, they came across two others, whom he suspected had alighted from the same car and waited for them along the way. “I then bolted into a nearby homestead for safety, but the two officers entered the home, grabbed me and hurled all sorts of insults at me before beating me up, while dragging me out of the residence,” Shiba alleged.

He alleged that when they got out of the home, the third police officer arrived and he was carrying a gun (pistol), which he allegedly used to assault him on the head and face. “While insulting and assaulting me, they said they wanted to teach me a lesson. They also grabbed me with my manhood and I suffered injuries,” Shiba alleged. He also claimed that in his pockets, he had E270 and a cellphone, but when he arrived at the police station, he had only E20 in his pockets. On top of that, he purported that after the police officers had allegedly satisfied themselves in assaulting him, he became partially deaf and his left hand, which was tightly fastened with handcuffs, was not functioning properly.  

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