3 SA ex-Police officers deported

The three South African ex-Police officers who were arrested in Ghana for training the security detail of the flagbearer and running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party have been deported.

They were put on board South African Airways flight number 210, which departed around 9:26 am to Johannesburg.

Nana Asante Bediatuo one of the lawyers for the former South African Police officers confirmed the development to Oman News.

Reports indicate their entry visas have been revoked. The state said their presence in the country had security implications for the nation.

Background

The trio until their deportation were in the grips of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI). They had been granted bail by a court but the BNI detained them over the Easter holiday period.

It is unclear whether the state plans to continue with the case it initiated in court or not.

The three including Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis (rtd), 54; Warrant Officer Denver Dwayhe, 33, and Captain Mlungiseli Jokani, 45 were charged with conspiracy to commit crime and unlawful training.

The Head of Nana Addo’s security team Captain (rtd) Edmund Koda and the owner of the EL-Capitano Hotel Captain (rtd) Acquah where the 3 ex-officers lodged were also arrested and have been charged but the state dropped the charges.

Captain Koda was later re-arrested and kept in BNI custody until Monday when he was released on health grounds.

‘3 ex SA officers studying documents to compromise election results’

The Interior Ministry in a statement said one of the three South African ex-Police officers arrested in the country had in his possession, a comprehensive document on the vulnerability of some key workers of Superlock Technologies Limited, the company hired by the Electoral Commission to transmit tallied election results. This was contained in a statement released by the Interior Ministry on Monday.

According to the Ministry, the dossier on the company and the key staff is to possibly compromise them.

“A comprehensive report on the operations of Superblock Technologies Limited (STL) and an assessment of some key staff’s vulnerability for possible compromise was retrieved from Hazis’s [One of the ex 3 South African Police officers ] room.

STL is the company contracted by the Electoral Commission to transmit tallied election results.

“Hazis denied authoring the document but indicated that it was given to him by Dani Isaaca, an Israeli based in South- Africa. Hazis claimed he had not read the document which had been in his possession for about three (3) weeks. During interrogation it was evident that he was conversant with the content of the document,” the report added.

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