SECUNDA – Two police constables from Secunda were arrested last week on allegations of armed robbery, corruption and defeating the ends of justice.
The arrest of the pair came after police received information regarding a marked police bakkie with two police officers in the process of offloading copper cables at a house in eMbalenhle.
Upon arrival, the police found the copper cables.
Messrs Moses Bongani Maseko (45) and Freddy Simphiwe Ngobeni (36) were arrested for possession of suspected stolen property.
The pair implicated the two uniformed police officers who were driving the police bakkie.
The matter was handed over to the Anti-Corruption Unit, hence the arrest of the two members, Const Freedom Mebu (26) and Musawenkosi Praiseman Mbokazi (33).
A short scrutiny on the matter suggested that Mebu and Mbokazi had allegedly robbed some men who they found carrying the copper cables and delivered it to the house of the suspects (Maseko and Ngobeni).
Mebu and Mbokazi were arrested on 22 August and appeared in the Secunda Magistrate’s Court, while Ngobeni and Maseko appeared earlier and all of them were warned to reappear at the same court on 27 and 20 September respectively.
Lt General Mondli Zuma, police comissioner in Mpumalanga, vowed that corrupt elements will be removed from the police service.
