Johannesburg, August 29 – A recent report by South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) has dispelled the stereotype of Nigerians as major contributors to the country’s top-priority crimes.
The DPCI, led by Lt. Gen. Godfrey Lebeya, released statistics for the first quarter of 2024, revealing that Nigerians were not among the top foreign nationals involved in high-value crimes.
The data showed that South Africans accounted for a significant majority of the suspects arrested for serious offenses, with 77% of the accused being South African citizens. The remaining 23% were foreign nationals, primarily from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Lesotho.
General Lebeya highlighted the substantial number of cases handled by the DPCI, involving over 750,000 charges with a total value of approximately $57 billion. These cases included serious corruption, fraud, money laundering, police killings, cash-in-transit robberies, illegal mining, infrastructure damage, and crimes against the state.
The DPCI, commonly known as the Hawks, reassured South Africans of its commitment to investigating and combating priority offenses.
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