Senior
Gauteng officer’s irregular conduct probed
15
November 2016, 11:13am
LUYOLO
MKENTANE
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Johannesburg - The noose is tightening around a senior Gauteng
police officer who is facing serious allegations of corruption, as police
launch a probe into her conduct.
Betty Lufuno Nkuna was promoted from lieutenant-colonel to
colonel in August, despite facing serious charges of breaking the law with impunity,
selling posts and exploiting her subordinates by demanding “lunch and transport
money” from them, among other alleged irregularities.
The controversial policewoman also broke the Public Service Act
when she allegedly changed an unpaid leave application to reflect paid leave
for a police officer who had been arrested for assaulting and threatening to
kill his wife and children.
This was according to three police officers attached to the
Protection and Security Service Division in Jeff Masemola Street in Pretoria.
They also alleged that Nkuna sat on a panel that interviewed her daughter
Xihungasi and lied about their being related.
They also claimed that she unanimously docked or froze staff
salaries and intimidated, threatened and victimised those who opposed her
“dictatorial” leadership.
Following The Star’s exposé last month, the police have moved
quickly to investigate the wide-ranging allegations against Nkuna, and said the
probe would take about 90 days to complete, “depending on the co-operation of
the witnesses”.
One of the police officers who made the allegations against
Nkuna said: “We are happy that at least, at the end of the day, the matter has
received the necessary attention. Our take is that Nkuna must be brought to
book. She is not above the law.”
luyolo.mkentane@inl.co.za
The Star
