Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola has confirmed that officials from security company G4S are implicated in the escape of rapist and murderer Thabo Bester from prison. Last week, parliament began the process of summoning G4S to explain how Bester escaped from the Mangaung Prison, which the company managed.
Lamola says the company’s alleged involvement has been investigated. “Yes, there are officials from G4S implicated, in terms of the investigative report that we have. The Correctional Services investigation has been completed and submitted to me. We will give a blow-by-blow to the portfolio committee, as to when the investigation starts, the types of officials implicated. Bester, his girlfriend Dr Nandipha Magudumana, and a Mozambican national named Zacharia Alberto – were arrested in Tanzania on Friday night in Arusha in northern Tanzania.
The pair have been on the run since his escape became public last month. It had been believed he had died in a fire, at the Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein, but it was later discovered that he had escaped in May last year.
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, Popcru, has welcomed the re-arrest of escaped fugitive Thabo Bester in Tanzania, saying that it will bring relief to his victims.
Popcru’s spokesperson Richard Mamabolo says, “Yes we do welcome the re-arrest, I think it also brings about some form or relief for the victims – because I think it has been long overdue that for almost a year now- they had not been aware of his whereabouts.
In fact, for most of us, we had thought that he was under incarceration – so this is a huge relief. I think moving from now onwards- the main that we think should happen is to obviously do a little bit of introspection- especially on the part of the department of Correctional Services, and the contracts that they have with these two private prisons in the country.
Source: SABC
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