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Embattled Deputy National Police Commissioner for Crime Detection Lt. General Shadrack Sibiya fired a salvo at KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lt. General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, accusing him of being a ‘rogue cop and a monster in the making’.

Testifying before the Parliamentary AD Hoc Committee that is probing authenticity of the accusations made by Mkhwanazi relating to capture of the South African Police Service (SAPS) by the underworld criminal gangs at a press conference on July 6, suspended Sibiya described as rogue officer and a monster in the making, saying one day ‘I will be proven right’.

Mkhwanazi accused suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of having facilitated the capture of the SAPS under instructions from North West tenderpreneur Brown Mogotsi with orders from murder accused and tenderpreneur as well, Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala, with the help of General Sibiya.

General Sibiya told the committee Mkhwanazi had come here [before the AD Hoc Committee] and pulled wool over your eyes about what he said was goings-on in the SAPS and labelled him [Sibiya] as a facilitator of the wrong doings. “I can assure you there is not even an iota of evidence in that regard. You may not see it today but I will be proven right with the passage of time,” General Sibiya said.

He said Mkhwanazi was a small boy in the SAPS trying to chase around his bosses and accusing them of colluding with criminal gangs to undermine the operations of the SAPS. “This is a new phenomenon that has never been heard of in the 30 years of democracy that small boys can chase their superiors and make allegations of this magnitude and get away with murder,” he said.

General Sibiya said Mkhwanazi was fully aware of the channels to follow to lodge a complaint if he had any grievance against anyone. I am not sure whether the press conference was the right platform for him to vent that frustration and make such wild and untested accusations,” General Sibiya charged.

Meanwhile, suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, testifying before the Parliamentary AD Hoc Committee as well later on, admitted he had indeed suspended the Political Killings Task Team and that he was within his powers.

“I have those powers under the constitution to disband the task team without even consulting other cabinet colleagues in the Justice cluster and this is what I did,” Mchunu said in reply to insinuations that he had done so without even consulting his cabinet colleagues.

“Since July 6, Have been smelling General Mkhwanazi, wearing General Mkhwanazi and I am happy that today I have been granted an opportunity to put my side of the story. task teams are not permanent entities or features of the SAPS, they are just used for a certain period with a budget for a certain time frame and when assessments are made and a need to disband them comes in, they are disbanded,” Mchunu said.

Mchunu admitted to the AD Hoc Committee of knowing Brown Mogotsi, a tenderpreneur who held and knew highly sensitive information about the operations of the task team and the people they were investigating, and said Mogotsi was his political comrade from the North West province.

“I know him but I don’t know him on the level suggested by General Mkhwanazi and the allegations that I take orders from him. I took no orders from anyone to disband the task team as it had reached the end of its journey, budget and the task at hand,” Mchunu said in his testimony.

“I am not a criminal and I am not connected to any criminals nor am I taking orders from them when I perform my duty as Minister. These allegations against me by Mkhwanazi are neither here nor there and should be seen as a lie and will remain a lie,” Mchunu said.

Mchunu and Sibiya are still yet to appear before the Justice Madlanga Commission, which is a parallel organ also investigating the allegations made by General Mkhwanazi during his press conference.