In March of that year, Police Minister Nathi Nhleko suspended McBride – then head of IPID – and replaced him with Israel Kgamanyane. Kgamanyane, in turn, suspended Sesoko a few weeks later. Sesoko and McBride maintained that they were casualties of political interference, aimed at undermining IPID's corruption investigations, by the police minister. Sesoko testified at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture in September last year that he had deduced that Nhleko ordered Kgamanyane to suspend him. In September 2016, the Constitutional Court found that McBride's suspension was unlawful and set it aside.