ActionSA will lead a protest outside the Office of the Minister of Justice in Pretoria today to demand the removal of National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi.
The party cites the NPAs deep dysfunction and alleged failures under Batohis leadership as reasons for seeking her removal.
ActionSA Parliamentary Caucus Leader, Athol Trollip says, Its been three years since the Zondo Commission tabled the files, and gave them to the President and we wouldve expected by now that there wouldve been a successful prosecution. Weve seen people like Zizi Kodwa, getting off through the incompetence of the NPA, and the notorious Omotoso case, where he was released after eight-years.
The same prosecutors that botched that case, were reassigned to the corruption case in the Fort Hare University, that has involved supply chain management infiltration, and even assassinations. How do you assign somebody whose been found to be completely and inept as a prosecutor in one case, to another even more important case. These are the problems that we have with the NPA - theyre too many to mention, explains Trollip.
PODCAST Below is the full discussion on the matter:
