A Hawks warrant officer has testified about his difficult working relationship with his superior, suspended KwaZulu-Natal provincial head of the Hawks, Major General Lesetja Senona.
Warrant Officer Karl Sander told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that Senona pushed him out of the narcotics division on trumped-up corruption allegations and subjected him to two polygraph tests, including one regarding a stolen coffee machine.
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Sander’s appearance at the commission in Pretoria on Monday forms part of an ongoing probe into a large consignment of cocaine that was stolen from a Hawks Serious Organised Crime storage facility in Port Shepstone in November 2021.
Following the multi-million-rand drug theft, Sander claims Senona treated him like a prime suspect despite the fact that he was not based at the Port Shepstone branch and had no knowledge of the narcotics.
“I was on leave. I came back to work, it was all over social media that the stuff had been stolen. I got back to the office, our senior managers came back to the office one day and said we were all suspects. Obviously, I did not agree with that, and then we were sent for polygraphs.”
Sander also detailed a bizarre subsequent incident where Senona ordered him to undergo a lie detector test for a missing appliance.
"My only safe space was my coffee machine and then they stole my coffee machine inside the DPCI [Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation]. I am laughing about it, but it’s still so annoying...
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