Millions of Rounds of AMMO
missing from the South African Police Service
FF Plus asks - where did
all the missing guns and ammo go?
12:14
(GMT+2) Fri, 09 Aug 2019
The South African
Police Service (SAPS) has 'lost' more than 9,5 million rounds of ammunition
over the last six financial years.
The
Freedom Front Plus reports that during the same period, 4 357 firearms were
also 'lost'.
These
shocking figures were revealed in an answer provided by Police Minister Bheki
Cele in response to an official parliamentary question posed by FF Plus leader,
Dr Pieter Groenewald.
The
greatest quantity of ammunition that went missing in a single year was in the
Eastern Cape where 3.2 million (3 231 406) rounds of ammunition went missing in
the 2016/17 financial year.
Dr
Groenewald said these figures are shocking and totally unacceptable, and in the
case of another province in North West, incomprehensible that more than 3
million rounds of ammunition can go missing during a single year and nobody
seems to know how it happened.
He said
the FF Plus will request the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee for Police
to urgently discuss this matter in the Committee and that the relevant people
must be held accountable.
