Sibiya: I followed orders in the missing cocaine case | Madlanga Commission

Hawks officer, Lt-Col. Kwazikwakhe Sibiya, has testified at the Madlanga Commission on Friday on the the drug bust in KZN.

Hawks officer Lt-Col. Kwazikwakhe Sibiya has denied allegations that he was involved in a scheme that left R200 million worth of seized cocaine vulnerable to theft, saying he acted on orders from senior officers.

Sibiya testified on Friday at the Madlanga Commission about the handling of 541 kilograms of cocaine seized from the CHC depot in 2021, a case linked to the disappearance of the drugs.

The officer said the decision to store the cocaine at the Port Shepstone Organised Crime Unit was made by his superiors after storage space at Isipingo SAPS was found to be unavailable.

According to Sibiya, Colonel Gavin Jacob informed officers that Brigadier Campbell Nyuswa had been consulted about the storage problem and that the drugs would be kept at the Port Shepstone facility.