Shaheed Stakala, photo: Supplied
Faizel Patel – 01/12/2020
Television talk show host Faizal Sayed has questioned how Shaheed Stakala can portray himself as a hero in the hajj space when he aggrieved many people including the elderly of their Hajj savings.
Stakala has come into the spotlight again after he claimed to have walked from Cape Town to Jerusalem.
In a video circulating on social media, Stakala claims that he walked across Africa and went into the Gaza Strip, but the Israelis refused him permission to enter the occupation state.
He then claims that he went back into Egypt, through Sinai and across the Gulf of Aqaba into Jordan, from where he entered the occupied West Bank and headed for Jerusalem.
Speaking to Radio Islam, Sayed says it is very doubtful that Stakala actually embarked on the walk from Cape Town to Jerusalem.
“I remember approximately a ten to fifteen hour bus journey between Cairo, under the Suez Canal, into the Asian continent in to Nuwaiba. I’ve travelled that same route this year, but by bus. That one trip alone that took fifteen hours through the desert with the bus. Can someone walk that route and that’s one component only and that’s from Cairo. I am just having my doubts as much your audience because certainly I wouldn’t pick up that amount of weight.”
Sayed says Stakala is a hajj crook and a fraud.
“The biggest issue for me is the fact that how do you put yourself up as a hero of hajj when there are people crying in Cape Town because you know you’ve taken their money and disappeared with their journey.”
Also speaking to Radio Islam, Sayed’s attorney Fazloodien Abrahams says he is looking into whether Stakala can be extradited back to South Africa.
“I am currently in talks with the authorities whether there is a J50 that is executable or enforceable. If so than we need to look at whether there are treaties between the two countries confirming that they can extradite on that basis.”
Following Stakala’s response to Sayed’s call for Justice and to appear on his show, the so called “Hajj Crook” made outrageous demands including a one way business class ticket, accommodation for seven days in the President Hotel during isolation for coronavirus and an appearance fee of 10% of the shows profits or half a million rand.
Listen to the interview with Faizal Sayed and Fazloodien Abrahams
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