Former Acting Police Commissioner Khomotso Phahlane said that his suspension by the then police Minister Fikile Mbalula was not legal.<\/p>\n
Phahlane said that his suspension was not based on any law, and he should have never been asked to \u201cstep aside\u201d by Mbalula in 2017.<\/p>\n
Phahlane was suspended in connection with a \u201cblue lights\u201d tender and allegations of procurement fraud.<\/p>\n
The former Acting Commissioner was giving evidence before parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee investigation into police corruption today as it resumes its hearings for the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0“I was not removed by the President of the Republic of South Africa as the Constitution and the Police Act dictate. I was made to step aside by the minister of police, then no law provides for such. That\u2019s why I continue to say that my removal from office cannot be found anywhere in the prescripts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Acting Police Commissioner Khomotso Phahlane said that his suspension by the then police Minister Fikile Mbalula was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-24107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}