ONE thing the suspended deputy police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, has to do after appearing at the AD Hoc Committee, when he gets home, is to take pain killers.
On Tuesday, he spent the entire day responding or rather being evasive, with answers to the very agitated MPs, who believe Lt. Sibiya testimony was inconsistent.
At some stage I wondered if his legal team gave him a briefing, as he dismally failed to respond to simple questioning.
“I don’t know exactly what to make of him as character.”
“Is he a person who avoids answering, or is he just evasive? So I can’t give one general understanding of who is he, or what is he, or how he is answering,” said MKP’s Thulani Shongwe.
“It begs a lot of questions, though, in terms of character. The man has a cloud over his head. For one to clear that cloud, he would have been clearly honest, and he is very avoidant.
“I believe that when you know the truth, you know it… He never answers one thing… He just goes (rambling) a long way, like a politician, which he says he is not.”
Lt Sibiya was appearing before the Committee that is investigating allegations made by the South African Police Service’s KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, on July 6, amongst others, the disbandment of the Political Killing Task Team (PKTT) and infiltration by cartels/criminals within the Police and Judiciary.
Sibiya also spoke at length that he’s a senior to Commissioner Mkhwanazi, which the Committee did not ‘buy’ considering his behaviour and inconsistencies.
I think the name Mdumiseni Ntuli, the Chief Whip of the ANC, will ring in the head of Sibiya, who made sure he cornered him with questions, such that the chairperson of the Committee Soviet Lekganyane had to intervene.
Going for jugular was the evidence leader SC Norman Arendse, who also threw punches in the hole of Sibiya’s inconsistencies.
To tell the truth, Sibiya might seem like a good guy who, unfortunately was caught in a web of controversial NW businessman Brown Mokgotsi, whom he says ‘met and knows’ and others.
He’s legal team led by criminal law expert Ian Levitt, can do better.
On Thursday, the Committee will resume with the testimony from suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.
Image (Inconsistencies. Suspended deputy police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, failed to answer simple questions).
