EFF: Intelligence services a huge cover-up for corruption
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi lashed out at the State Security Agency during the tabling of its budget in Parliament on Friday.
Ndlozi accused the agency of spending money without providing any actual intelligence services but rather to hide corruption.
In a strongly-worded speech Ndlozi said the State Security Agency uses secrecy to cover up fraud and corruption.
"The code of secrecy we are sworn into (as the Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence) is a big ploy to protect corruption and Parliament must not be complicit. If money is not used for intelligence services it is unlawful to keep quiet."
Author Jacques Pauw, in his explosive book 'The President's Keepers', chronicled the agency's abuse of state resources through its secret account.
Ndlozi pleaded with MPs not to approve the budget, saying if they do "we are complicit in literally being witnesses to state resources being looted for personal benefit, and we are there quiet and the country doesn't know".
State Security Minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba admitted that the agency is engulfed by systemic structural and governance weaknesses.