COPS RAID HOME AFFAIRS, CONFISCATE 400 FILES

MBABANE – If you are employed at Home Affairs and you know your hands are not clean, police are coming for you.

This, after members of the Royal Swaziland Police raided the Ministry of Home Affairs in Mbabane where they confiscated 400 files for investigation purposes.

In essence, the investigation into the unlawful issuance of State documents to foreign nationals has intensified.
The documents, which were confiscated by the police during the raid, include visas, registry book and passports, among others.
Recently, a senior Immigration Officer, Thobile Magagula and Busi Dlamini, who is an assistant Immigration Officer, were arrested and slapped with nine charges of corruption.

They are alleged to have unlawfully issued passports and single visa permits to nine undeserving Indian nationals. According to the Principal Investigator of the case, Sizwe Mazibuko, the files were seized from Magagula’s office and were still under investigation.
Mazibuko disclosed this in the Crown’s papers where it is opposing the bail application filed by the two implicated officers.

He told the court that Magagula and Dlamini committed the offences fully aware that investigations were ongoing in respect of the rot that had been widely reported about at the Immigration offices which led to a public outcry. Even Parliament instituted an enquiry into the matter.

“In the month of October 2017, the police commenced investigations at the Immigration offices and as a result, confiscated 60 files,” submitted the police officer.

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