MP urges Parly committees to also call Mkhwanazi in SAPS probe
The Police and Justice Portfolio Committees are weighing the options to probe the claims made by the KZN police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, against senior officials.
Mkhwanazi has accused Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and some top cops of interfering in police investigations involving organised crime syndicates.
Some of the options put forward on Wednesday included a full-blown investigation or setting up an Ad Hoc committee, but they were rejected by the majority MPs, who argued that there are already committees capable of carrying out the work that needs to be done.
Fadiel Adams of the National Coloured Congress says the committee also needs to call Mkhwanazi before Parliament and question him on his claims.
He’s suggested the KZN police chief may have called the press conference at which he made the explosive claims as a pre-emptive move.
" So much has been said about General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and the allegations he made, and I find it very, very suspicious that a full minister is suspended and the Deputy National Commissioner is suspended on the basis of an allegation.
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"But seven seniors generals in SAPS are charged and they're still at work, and General Mkhwanazi is coming out in defense of these people."
EFF MP Eugene Mthethwa has also cautioned the public against taking sides until all the facts have been gathered.
" We must wait for the Commission of Inquiry to now give the natural justice to what the allegations are about because we haven't heard the other side of the story.
"So, we must wait for the investigations to be completed by the Commission of Inquiry before we become the portfolio committees entrusted with the responsibility of holding the executive accountable."
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