COP CHARGED FOR FREEING CONVICT IN EXCHANGE FOR REFRIGERATOR

MBABANE – Misdemeanours continue to haunt the police service as a cop has been charged for freeing a convict in exchange for a refrigerator.

The police officer is based at Ezulwini Police Post and is alleged to have allowed a housebreaking convict to escape from custody in return for the refrigerator. Constable Nkosinathi Emmanuel Ngwenya is the same officer who was recently arrested for allegedly stealing a tyre and rim from a Toyota Quantum belonging to the Royal Swaziland Police (RSP).

He has been charged with contravening item 29 of the schedule of offences of the Police Act.
“In that upon or about the month of October 2012 at or near Mbabane, the said defaulter (Ngwenya), who was at all material times a member of the Royal Swaziland Police and as such governed by the police regulations, did wrongfully and deceitfully receive property from one Osvaldo Gondolo, a convicted prisoner with a promise to pay his fine,” reads one of the charges.

Gondolo had been convicted of housebreaking by the Mbabane National Court president and was ordered to pay or E500 fine and E800 as compensation verdict.

A warrant of his (Gondolo) committal to Sidwashini Correctional facility was issued but Ngwenya allegedly took him to the Mbabane Police Station where he later released him in return for the refrigerator.

Ngwenya, who is due to appear before the police tribunal, has been slapped with a total of five counts. The prosecution in the tribunal has lined up 11 witnesses to testify against him.

In the first count it, is alleged that in October 2012 at or near Mbabane, he allowed Gondolo, a convicted prisoner, to escape from lawful custody.
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