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By IOL Reporter 
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Cape Town – Home Affairs Portfolio Committee Chairman Bongani Bongo requested CCTV footage of Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera’s plane departure from Waterkloof Air Force Base, including three hours before his departure.
Bongo had said Monday: “There is something very conspicuous about how (Shepherd’s) Bushiri escape happened. The Republic accredited 17 people but 23 arrived.
That in itself was strange. Then when the Malawian delegation left, they did so with 19 people on board. Why would that be the case? ”
On Tuesday, the committee also requested a detailed report from security group ministers on how the self-described prophet Bushiri and his wife Mary violated their conditions of bail and fled to Malawi during their money laundering and fraud trial.
Bongo said he had received information from NGOs that Bushiri had left on the plane with which the president of Malawi had departed.
“If we were to get images of what happened when the plane left and three hours before, we could adequately answer all the questions the nation has about what happened on that specific day,” Bongo said.
“From where we sit as a committee, whoever enters or leaves the country must have an internal affairs stamp or some document administered by internal affairs. In this case they told us that all the family’s documentation was taken to the police ”.
The security group’s ministers and their technical teams met on Monday to discuss the matter and will prepare a full report for parliament, according to Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
He told deputies that Bushiri and his wife Mary had five passports each issued by Malawi.
Motsoaledi said the Hawks raised the alarm that the Bushiris did not report to the police station on the day the Malawian president’s entourage was due to depart from Waterkloof Air Force Base.
At that time, a forward team from the Malawian presidential entourage wanted to depart on the presidential plane, but they were told it could not happen.
He said the advance team was recommended to board at OR Tambo International Airport after negotiations.
Motsoaledi detailed the process that was followed until the team was allowed to board the presidential plane on the OR Tambo runway after they were processed like any other passenger.
Before the plane left, it was searched and there was no sign of Bushiris, he said.
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