ARREST WARRANT ISSUED? Inside General Senona's Explosive Madlanga Testimony!

[00:00:00]What we heard was that there were rumors around a J50 warrant of arrest that had been issued for uh Sana as well. Now you know that uh there's about four officers who have been suspended in relation to the Port Shiftston scandal as well.

[00:00:13]>> Imagine being one of the top elite crime fighters in the country only to be mared out of your own office at gunpoint.

[00:00:21]Stripped off your state laptop and treated in your own words like a dog.

[00:00:26]here and cry and say I subjected him to the what you call a a polygraph test for the theft of his coffee machine. That is not correct.

[00:00:36]Maybe for lack of a better word, it is insane of me to to shall have done that.

[00:00:41]Commissioners, if if if you are a victim, then I put you on a polygraph test. That is wrong. He misled the commission.

[00:00:51]I want to I want to pause there and continue with my state.

[00:00:54]>> Sorry. Sorry, General. I'm I'm I'm not sure I follow that. What what exactly is not correct?

[00:01:01]It is not correct that he was subjected to polygraph examination because of the theft of his own coffee machine that is was stolen in that office. It was not only him. The person who initiated everything and made arrangement is Brigadier. I only signed the call up instruction and I believe the commission is in possession of those documents. I don't have my tools of traits since they were taken when I was taken at gunpoint out of my office. My laptop, my gun, my uh laptop is gone. And then uh documents that I was supposed to prepare for my disciplinary I was taken out of my office like somebody I don't know for lack of a better word like a dog.

[00:01:50]And that thing is still a pain. Yeah.

[00:01:53]and it caused me to lie in hospital for 2 weeks.

[00:01:56]>> That is the bombshell reality dropped today at the mama commission of inquiry by the suspended hawk's head major general sona after months of delay subpoena and legal chess loops by his lawyers. Sona finally fired back but the state unrolls the J50 and heavy accusation of state capture by ruthless drael. The question isn't just why he was suspended. It is who holds the keys to the kingdom.

[00:02:27]>> Commissioner, I work outside. Um I'm an outdoor person. Um you you you clock in through a checkpoint in the morning. You clock out at a checkpoint. There's no time. You cannot go out at a certain time. My only safe space was my coffee machine. And then they stole my coffee machine inside the DTCI.

[00:02:48]Sorry, I'm laughing about it. It's still so annoying. And I had to get polygraphed because of the theft of my own coffee machine.

[00:02:56]>> Who asked you to be polygraphed for the theft of your own coffee machine?

[00:03:00]>> General Sonoma. There were other exhibits. Um there were other items that were going missing in the in the environment.

[00:03:09]And again, I was seen as a suspect and I had to go and get polygraphed for the theft of my own coffee machine.

[00:03:16]>> Do you know if you passed?

[00:03:18]>> I passed.

[00:03:20]Let's let's look at what this is really about. In June 2021, a massive drug bust at Debon Harour, nets of 541 kg of pure cocaine were found or intercepted. And what was the street value? It was a staggering 200 million rates. Instead of being locked down securely and massive how is moved to a walk-in safe at the Hawks office in Port Shepston, a facility with zero CC CCTV and no working alarm system and then it completely vanishes. The commission has dropped evidence showing this wasn't a slick breakin. It was a glaring inside job. Worst yet, earlier testimony from Brigadier Campbell Musa revealed that General Selona personally had access to both keys to that very strong room.

[00:04:12]warrant officer gave both set of keys to General in my present. At the time it it made sense to me that the provincial should take the keys because this was a big drug bus and who better to to have ownership and responsibility over the keys than the provincial head.

[00:04:33]Especially since the safe could not be accessed without the keys. When clean cops like warranted officer Carl Centers started digging, they found themselves abruptly redeployed, targeted, and subject to polygraph tests under Sona's command structure. Sona claimed he moved senders to protect him because of allegations he was selling drugs to Durban syndicate. But the commission's paper trail tells a very different, highly strategic story.

[00:05:04]>> And I don't believe this is a stage thing.

[00:05:07]Hardened criminals came and stole this cocaine. They grinded this thing there on top. They grounded at the bottom. And then go back to the first one. Yeah.

[00:05:19]Look at on the floor there next to that thing that looks like a chair is a mechanism that was there. The locking mechanism.

[00:05:29]This safe has got a serial number. Number one.

[00:05:35]This safe has got the SABS approval.

[00:05:40]Now the investigators I expected that by now they shall have received an expert report that will either confirm or dispute what Brigade was coming to say here. You can't just by a naked eye come and say this thing was staged. He was surprised.

[00:06:04]this is a real crime scene.

[00:06:07]>> Obviously, as expected, he's denying his involvement in the bust. He's saying that um he was never involved and that those people that have came before the commission saying that there were individuals that are known that are involved in this bust. He says why did they arrest those people by now and that he doesn't know, you know, of those people that are involved in the past.

[00:06:28]And what then tops it all is the fact that this guy when he was asked about procedure and following the proper procedure because he played a role whether he likes it or not with regards to that and he says that he didn't know that there was new laws that say that when these um substances or exhibits are intercepted they have to put them in evidence bags. According to him there was not really a need for evidence bags because it's a standard that's in precedence if you can put it like that.

[00:06:55]He even showed us the picture of Sona in one of the bus and they were not having any equipment or evidence bags for these exhibits and he says it was a standard thing. Therefore, there's just a lot of developments of the law around the handling of exhibits and everything and he says that he has not sensitized himself with every each and every law.

[00:07:16]He did not read each and every law around that. So if there was any change in the law with regards to putting these exhibits in evidence bags, he might he might have not known about that law because apparently you know he doesn't read that's literally was his confession and that the laws are changing all the time. You see that that space there commissioners I I I talked about this in January.

[00:07:42]When you look at that that space there inside there where these photos were taken there is general k the former minister there's general konazi there's general lea there's general sto the former national commissioner do you see what is happening there commissioners those are menrexs are they influenc seat backs and that place is the place where the drugs were stolen this 541 kg.

[00:08:19]Hence, I I agreed to the suggestion of my brigadeier because here is evidence that I've presented before and I'm presenting it again that it was not the first time and the senior members that are there are far much senior than me.

[00:08:36]So he sees no wrongdoing literally on on his side. But here's where the story takes a bizarre and almost unbelievable turn. Out of the 200 million drug heist, what became a central talking point today was the missing coffee machine.

[00:08:52]Yes, you heard it right.

[00:08:54]had to explicitly state in his official brief today that I have no recollection of subjecting the member the member to a polygraph test relating to the theft of a coffee machine as well as the issue of the dismissal of Mr. Sanders blaming everybody but himself saying that he might have signed anything that says um Sanders has been moved to to supply chain but it was not his instruction to begin with that was he started blaming you and he started blaming Godfrey Libya who was the head of the hawks at that time so this guy literally he was saying I didn't do anything everybody else but not me in as much as everybody else that stood there at the mad commission with regards to the shift bust they were pointing the finger at him but is pointing the finger at other people like Lisa Sona and Yua so it's just a cycle that I think the mad commission if they fall in the trap they'll keep on running around and not even getting to the conclusion because now and again they'll have to be calling people that are going to answer to whatever for example calling you did you suspend senders So it will make sense for them to literally say okay you know we've heard all the sides we as the commissioners we're going to make our own conclusion as to what is really going on here. I don't recall coming and telling me that sand requested to be placed back because at some stage is a decision needed to be taken there and commissioners. So him saying s requested to be transferred back. No I recall saying to the member must be taken back to Soki.

[00:10:41]And then when we talk about SOI serious organized crime the provincial commander who is responsible for serious organized crime units which are five in the province is Daniel.

[00:10:56]So if he decided to place him at the EPR, he should have provided reasons why he did that because I must say we we we comply with instructions and if you are not happy with it, you comply and complain.

[00:11:18]That is the culture of the police >> for investigative journalism. Following this, it's a classic counter inelligence playbook movie clouding a massive systematic state failure and macro trafficking collisions with tribal internal disciplinary drama to muddy the water and stall for time. with Talibu arguing that the commission is overstepping its mandate and denying them access to critical files. The push back from the top brass is reaching a fever peach.

[00:11:51]>> The the issue is that the general is saying that he takes responsibility as the head but it can't be asked about did this one open this key or whatever and and at that level if you are a manager you rely on people. You can't it doesn't mean if you're a CEO you must know what's happening in the technology department in the accounting department in this and this at the level of of of of that detail but as I say I just I don't want to maybe start the questioning but with the greatest respect it's not clear what needs to be achieved in relation to the terms of reference. May I clarify with your li May I just ask a question?

[00:12:31]Um does the fact that with regard to uh this and in particular the storage um does the fact that the general had taken uh a particular interest in this and even went to to to Port Shepson himself even took over the keys. Does that not distinguish it for example from your situation?

[00:12:55]>> Yes. uh at the SA SABC of not necessarily knowing what is happening at at the northwest office of >> thank you chair it may or may not but I'm making a different point the the point is that to what end in relation to the terms of reference >> general Sona claims he's an innocent man being targeted by internal subs power struggles and political welfare but when 500 kilos of state impound Ed cocaine walks out the front door under your watch. Not recalling detail doesn't cut it anymore. The commission is exposing a dark reality. The cartel hasn't just infiltrated our streets. They've compromised the very people sworn to dismantle them. What do you think? Was Sona a victim of a dark police mutiny or he's sitting on the biggest secret of the case and drug trade? I >> accepted that on the basis that he was not present. He he cannot comment on what went down. He will live with the concessions made.

[00:14:00]I then shifted to Port Shapton where he was present. Now these are two different scenarios and it cannot be that he cannot be questioned about flouting of prescriptions of in his presence. He was away. It is different from what happened at the harbor, what happened at dipingo because he was not present. And that distinction is an important one to hold.

[00:14:21]The conversation we have had over the past uh so many minutes is about his presence at Keptton his approvals at know maybe not approvals but his failure to act when prescripts are flouted that he can respond to and it it is not enough for Mr. Mu to call it minutia there are series of questions of what we consider flouting of prescripts in his presence that at the very least must be put each question to General Sona and there's no basis for Mr. for you to stop that exercise. The question will be put what arises is how General Sona responds there too. I was going to deal with the provisions of the act and the fact that actually the witness is under compulsion to respond to every question put to him in the commission and answer to the satisfaction of the commissioners um at at the risk of of inviting consequences to him. Another important aspect that he spoke about was the issue of the fact that they got exonerated.

[00:15:16]There was investigations against them.

[00:15:17]They were involved in the kidnappings of in the torture of Mr. Naggi. So Mr. Naggi was a suspect in the kidnapping of Desai. So I've covered that story intensively in this channel many a times and there was someone that even went captain who went at the Malanga commission and exposed left that they were tortured and even opened a case right now against people like Lieutenant General Lamas.

[00:15:48]But from what we are hearing from Sedona is that the investigations were conducted internal subs investigations and they were all exonerated from those investigations. So he was very excited about that. I think you know he's just going through a lot and you know the small victories are making him feel quite happy. And also do you think this J50 warrant over arrest that has also been issued is going to finally be implemented? Drop your thoughts below.