The plot‚ revealed to Madonsela by a police informant who she knows‚ involved the payment of R740‚000 to a prominent Western Cape gang leader to arrange a hit‚ reported the Sunday Times.
Acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane was consulting various role players‚ including the office of the Public Protector‚ about the threat on Monday‚ said police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi.
“The matter is receiving serious attention and therefore we request that the Acting National Commissioner be given space to ascertain himself with the claims (which were foreign to him)‚” he said.
Phahlane was not aware of the threat‚ which should have been reported to him‚ when he was initially contacted by the Sunday Times. “This is foreign to me. I was never briefed‚” he said.
