certain senior officials

Colonel Sebola was confronted with General Khan's statement and opined that interference by senior officials messed up a good case causing it to be lost.

“I was confronted with a certain statement of General Khan... if he had approached this scene the way it was supposed to be, we were not going to be confronted with this level of questioning... Based on their interferences and other things, what was supposed to be a good case has been lost.”