Gauteng traffic police chief inspector Samuel Mashaba had trouble answering questions at the Madlanga Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Friday.
The Madlanga Judicial Commission of Inquiry expressed its frustration with the evasive answers given by Gauteng traffic police chief inspector Samuel Mashaba during his testimony on Friday.
Mashaba continued giving evidence at the commission chaired by retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga on the July 2021 drug bust in Aeroton, Johannesburg, where over 715kg of cocaine with a street value of R300 million was seized.
The inquiry has heard that after the seizure of the drugs transported by truck to Johannesburg were allegedly shipped from Brazil and led to Mashaba’s arrest and two other members of the SA Police Service, who later lodged a complaint with the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
Evidence leader Advocate Lee Seeguls-Ncube asked Mashaba about an exchange of messages from a person identified as “EB boss” on WhatsApp or “Alpha” on Threema forwarded to him by businessman Tumelo Nku, who he claimed was an informant.
