Nkabinde justifies referring Adams's complaint about Masemola to IDAC

Minister Senzo Mchunu's chief of staff, Cedric Nkabinde, has justified referring MP Fadiel Adams’s complaint about National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola for criminal investigation.

Nkabinde said this was because Adams had lost confidence in the country’s top cop.

Nkabinde said that he referred Adams’s complaint to the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) because it was a service delivery complaint despite receiving "hundreds" of complaints.

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Adams, the leader of the National Coloured Congress (NCC) party, laid the complaint against General Masemola, accusing him of fraud and nepotism and running a patronage network within the police force.

Nkabinde was questioned before the ad hoc committee investigating police corruption on why he felt it was appropriate to refer the Adams complaint to IDAC.

"This complaint is showing that a complainant has lost confidence in the national commissioner, if you read the content of the email. So, definitely his requesting an independent body, the independent body relevant will be IDAC, because national commissioner is the number one cop in the country."