‘Either Senona is lying or you are’: Lebeya grilled over R200m cocaine | Madlanga Commission
Lebeya told the Madlanga Commission on Tuesday that he was unaware that Senona had been given the key, including spare keys, to the facility where the seized drugs were stored.
Retired Hawks commander Godfrey Lebeya testified before the Madlanga Commission that he was unaware former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks chief Lesetja Senona had access to the storage facility where 541kg of cocaine, worth approximately R200 million, was kept. Lebeya claimed he learned about the break-in at the Port Shepstone facility only after the drugs had been stolen.
This contradicts Senona's previous statement that he had informed Lebeya about the decision to relocate the drugs to the Port Shepstone facility. When confronted by Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube, Lebeya refused to accuse Senona of lying, stating he could not recall being told about the storage arrangements. The cocaine was initially seized from a shipment at Durban harbor in June 2021 and moved to the Port Shepstone facility, but the decision to store it there has been called into question due to security concerns at the site.
Recent evidence has suggested insider involvement in the theft, and Senona has never undergone a polygraph test following the drugs' disappearance.
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