It took eight bullets to finally silence Absalom Njoni, the Airports Company SA (Acsa) employee working at OR Tambo International Airport. He was killed last May in Tembisa and a whistle-blower has linked his death to entrenched corruption at Acsa
Airports company finds itself in a cloak-and-dagger situation after a staff member is killed and a whistle-blower alleges the motive was to silence him
Family members related the first attempt to Acsa executives, saying this had occurred about a month earlier.They knocked and he opened the door. They asked him if he was Absalom. Sithebe was also cited as head of an internal team that started interrogating contracts at Acsa – with the blessing of the board – and arranged for security of employees to be beefed up.Acsa said “the company is satisfied that its security structures responded appropriately in the circumstances and that the necessary resources have been applied in terms of the personal safety and security of our employees”.
The person said a preliminary analysis of the information obtained from Mr X was escalated within the company, and a high level decision taken that security be prioritised for all company staff so that “nobody else must die.”A preliminary probe revealed that the service provider had another contract with Acsa. Like the contract Njoni was dealing with, this one appeared to have been “awarded fraudulently”.
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