By Robert Mugabe
The lead suspect in the assassination attempt on exiled Rwandan Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa offered some US$1million to South African police officers as bribe to release him clandestinely just after he had been arrested in mid July, a Johannesburg court heard Thursday.
Prosecutors produced in court sworn affidavits from two police officers who narrated that Pascal Kanyandekwe, 29, promised to give them that amount of money in cash if they let him go. The suspect was in court amid very tight security.
The officers attached to a maximum security police detention facility in Johannesburg, said in their affidavits they immediately sensed what the suspect was planning – including possibly leaving the country.
Based on the evidence availed, the Judge ruled to deny bail to Kanyandekwe - the only Rwandan among the five people currently in custody over the failed murder attempt on dissident Gen Nyamwasa on June 29.
The Judge said if Kanyandekwe tried to avoid arrest, he may have intent to flee South Africa.
The magistrate said he would not speculate on whether the murder attempt was backed by the Rwandan government.
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