POLITICAL NEWS - Eyewitness News can reveal how Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has effectively seized command and control of the police’s Crime Intelligence unit, and has sidelined acting National Commissioner Lesetja Mothiba.
It emerged last month that Mbalula had issued a ministerial directive to the unit.
Now EWN can reveal that despite Mothiba’s attempts to resist what have been described as irregular and unlawful instructions from the minister, the unit now reports directly to the police’s political head.
Meeting minutes and confidential information notes which EWN has seen reveal Mbalula:
- believes Crime Intelligence officers are illegally spying on him and carrying out a campaign to discredit him.
- has ordered several promotions of generals be rescinded, and another general’s transfer out of the unit.
