While investigations into the brutal murder of Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes continue, new details shared by his bodyguard, Anwar ‘Dogg’ Khan, have raised eyebrows about the rapper’s movements on that fateful Friday evening.
AKA murder update: Anwar ‘Dogg’ Khan drops crucial hint
On Tuesday, interest in the rapper’s murder shot up when Khan, a renowned celebrity bodyguard, sat down with investigative journalist Annika Larsen for a tell-all interview on her ETV show, My Guest Tonight.
While, for the most part, Khan spent a large portion of the interview providing insights into the protection industry and his acquaintance with the Mass Country top-seller, a detail he mentioned about how security protocol was supposedly breached the night AKA had dinner with friends on that fateful evening of Friday, 10 February 2023, raised eyebrows.
According to Khan, AKA’s security detail on his work trip to Durban was mandated to only escort the rapper from the airport to the hotel, then to his show at Yūgō later that evening, before safely escorting him back to his inn ahead of his return flight to Johannesburg the next morning.
“Because when I say restriction of movements, it means I am reducing attacks, threats and so forth. In other words, I am picking you up from the airport, I am taking you to the hotel, and from the hotel to the show. To the show, to the hotel. No additional movements from the side,” Khan said.
Nowhere was his visit to Wish Restaurant listed on his itinerary that day, Dogg revealed.
In fact, a detail missing from AKA’s well-documented movements on the day he and longtime friend and manager Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane were murdered is that the rapper was allegedly invited by his friends to dine at the popular eatery situated on Florida Road.
In retrospect, Khan insisted that had he been there that fateful night, “protocol would have not been breached.”
“Kiernan was called and invited to go to Florida Road, which he accepted and he went. Had I been there, that protocol would have not been breached, simply because that call would have come from the road manager,” he said.
Investigations into AKA’s murder are still underway, with neither of the gunmen seen on the leaked CCTV identified more than a month after his tragic death.
However, according to recent statements made by Police Minister Bheki Cele, we know that cellphone activity from the rapper’s inner circle is at the centre of the investigation.
Cele confirmed that detectives working on the case were able to compile a holistic timeline of events leading up to the Company rapper’s death using data from cellphones that were collected from the rapper’s known associates and other persons of interest.
“We have collected a lot of cellphones that we are working on, download everything and try to patch things together; that’s the last I received on this matter,” he said.