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Bheki Cele was appointed to succeed Jackie Selebi and now he was the second consecutive police commissioner who was dismissed from his office under a cloud.
The decision to fire Cele was in line with the recommendations of the Moloi board of inquiry which claimed that Cele was lacking capacity to execute his job.
The decision of President Jacob Zuma to fire Cele after a damning report accused him in corruption. According to the inquiry that was found, Cele was dishonest, conflicted and was unfit for office as he was also negligent.
But Cele’s spokesperson Vuyo Mkhize said, “While Cele accepts that it is the president’s prerogative to appoint and fire the national police commissioner, he also believes that nobody – Judge Jake Moloi and President Jacob Zuma included – has a right to make legally unsound and defamatory claims about his character and conduct.”
Cele said yesterday that he would challenge the findings that Zuma used from the report by a board of inquiry chaired by Justice Jake Moloi and would take Zuma to court because he wanted to clear his name, not because he wanted to fight for his position.
The board of inquiry was commanded to found out whether Cele was involved in dishonesty, corruption or acted with an undeclared conflict of interest in relation to two police lease deals, one for a building in Durban and other for a building in Pretoria signed with Roux Shabangu.
Mkhize reported that “nothing but a crude hatchet job designed to dupe the president into believing that there is justifiable cause to rob South Africa of the services of the best police commissioner that the country has ever had”.
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