By Johnathan Paoli
Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Lieutenant-Colonel Nkoana Sebola has maintained that he neither saw nor interacted with Gauteng Crime Intelligence (CI) head Major-General Feroz Khan during the 2021 Aeroton cocaine bust, despite multiple witnesses testifying since Monday that Khan was at the scene.
Questioning Sebola during the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Thursday, commissioner Sesi Baloyi suggested the Hawks officer had deliberately omitted Khan from his account, saying the omission created an “uncomfortable impression”.
“His presence at the scene gives me the uncomfortable impression that you made a deliberate decision to keep General Khan’s name out of your mouth and out of your statement,” Baloyi said.
Resuming his testimony after lunch, Sebola told the commission that after arresting Warrant Officer Marumo Magane of the Crime Information Management and Analysis Centre, Warrant Officer Steve Phakula of the National Intervention Unit, Deputy Director Samuel Mashaba of Gauteng Traffic
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