Madlanga Commission: 'We didn't take the PKTT dockets' claims Shadrack Sibiya

Suspended top cop challenges Mkhwanazi's claims on politically charged cases

- RAPULA MOATSHE

SUSPENDED Deputy Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya testifies at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry yesterday.

(OUPA MOKOENA Independent Newspapers)

SUSPENDED Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has denied involvement in the transfer of 121 case dockets related to politically motivated killings from KwaZulu-Natal to his Pretoria office, contradicting allegations made by KZN police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.

He told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry yesterday that it was the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) head Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo who issued an instruction that the dockets be moved from KZN to Gauteng.

Sibiya testified that he was not involved when the 121 dockets were handed over and were under SAPS head office control for three months.

He vehemently denied that the dockets were kept in his office, saying: "We didn't take the dockets, store them at the head office and they are gathering dust somewhere in my office. I have never seen even a single docket, to date. I have not seen even one. They have never been in my office. I don't have a safe in my office nor an archive."