Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya says he has been betrayed by his colleagues after police investigators raided his home in Centurion, Pretoria, earlier Thursday.

Cellphones, laptops and other other electronic devices were seized.

Sibiya has been implicated in corruption during testimonies at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and Parliament’s Ad-Hoc Committee Inquiry.

He was suspended last month after an internal SAPS investigation claiming prima facie evidence to suggest he interfered with and delayed police investigations of the KwaZulu-Natal SAPS political killings task team. 

Sibiya feels he has been harassed ahead of his testimony at the Ad-Hoc Committee meeting next week.

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He was speaking to the media outside his home.

“All I am asking is that if they want to arrest me, I have a lawyer, they must tell him to come and hand me over or if they are coming to arrest me. Let them not come at three o’clock in the morning so that someone can shoot me. All I am asking is that let it be done in a fair way.”

Sibiya adds that the operation was intended to keep him under pressure.

“This search for today is meant to disrupt me as I am not there to listen to what the national commissioner is saying and I am not there to take notes and I am not concentrating. I have been served with a notice to appear before a disciplinary commission and I am also preparing documentation for Madlanga and as you can see, the whole exercise is meant to confuse me and keep me under pressure.”

General Shadrack Sibiya briefs the media outside his home in Centurion: