Fadiel Adams, leader of the National Colored Congress, was arrested on Thursday. (Photo: Fadiel Adams/Facebook)
Fadiel Adams, leader of the National Colored Congress (NCC) and a member of parliament, has been arrested and is believed to be on his way to KwaZulu-Natal.
Adams is accused of interfering with the police investigation into the assassination of Sindiso Magaqa at the time. Magaqa, a former secretary-general of the ANC’s youth league, died in September 2017, after he was shot in Umzimkhulu in KwaZulu-Natal in July that year.
Adams was handcuffed at his home in the Pelican Park parliamentary village on Tuesday afternoon.
His arrest came shortly after the police task force for political murders appealed to Adams to report to the nearest police station in connection with a case of fraud, defeat of justice and/or obstruction of justice.
Sibusiso Ncengwa was sentenced to 25 years in prison in July last year for the murder of Magaqa at the time.
According to Brig. Athlenda Mathe, national police spokesperson, revealed the police investigation that Adams “interfered with the now convicted and sentenced hitman at a very sensitive and advanced stage of the police investigation”.
Magaqa was a councilor of the Umzimkhulu municipality when he was shot in July 2017, after allegedly exposing corruption in a tender process at the municipality. He survived the attack, but finally succumbed to his wounds in September of that year.
Ncengwa later admitted he was the hitman. However, he implicated Zweliphansi Sikhosana, the former municipal manager of Umzimkhulu, as the mastermind behind the assassination.
Magaqa served as secretary-general of the ANC Youth League from June 2011 to April 2012 (during Julius Malema’s time as leader of the ANC Youth League).