From RNC Newsonline
Johannesburg
– The court case involving the six men accused of attempted assassination of Lt
Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa resumed today in Jeppestown, magistrate court.
On a
witness stand stood Erica N Nienwenhuis, a Forensic Analyst from SAPS, Pretoria
Central. What is more shocking from the defense team is that, prior to adjoining
the proceedings during the last court appearance, the defense team argued on
the basis of not having enough time to cross examine the witness.
Today it
was a different case. The defense team, loosing touch with base, only managed
to ask two questions, which Erica N Nienwenhuis firmly answered and they had no
alternative but to cut short their cross examination with her.
Hilda Du Plessis,
Senior Analyst Agent at MTN took a witness stand right after Erica, to
testify on the database obtained from MTN’s database system detailing/ mapping
the records of mobile phone calls, sms and voice mails made between the six accused men.
The information
provided by the service provider, MTN, not only well compiled before the court, but accurately and point by
point maps the modus operand of those involved in the attempted assassination, used. The prosecutor, Shaun Abrahams,
read to the public how the accused men exchanged mobile handsets in
order
to conceal their activities, while calling each other repeatedly in
different locations, exchanging smses with one another, but the failure
to catch-up with the technology is
slowly catching up with them.
As an
example given before the court, state prosecutor, Shaun Abrahams said that: three different SIM (Subscriber Identity
Model) card numbers were used on one Phone. The IMEI number (International Mobile Equal pin Identity) of the same phone reflected on the database, being used frequently. The same
phone belonged to accused number 5 the man who shot Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, also known as Amed Seif before the court.
Shuan Abrahams also told the court that " prior to
the attempted murder, 447 calls were made between the accused Richard Bachisa (the
then chauffeur of Let Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa) know as accused number 2 before the
court and Vincent Ngendo”.
As the data
was read out, two numbers from Rwanda emerged. One of which (+250782276419) belonged
to the former Chief of National Intelligence Security Service, Col Emmanuel
Ndahiro, who was reshuffled by the president and given a post in the defense
ministry. As report by AFP.
The database
before the court, clearly implicates all the accused from the date their sim-cards
were inserted into their handset to the date that they were placed in custody. From
the look of things, they are to remain behind the bars for a long time. The case
will resume on the 5th to the 6th September 2012.
JD MWISENEZA
Johannesburg
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