EFF: Mkhwebane is constitutionally illiterate
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has lashed out at Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane after she called for the terms of the commission of inquiry into state capture to be broad enough to include all state institutions and state-owned enterprises.
The EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi says Mkhwebane should rather keep quiet as she has demonstrated on more than one occasion that she does not deserve to be in the office of the public protector.
"We call on the public protector to really sometimes to just keep silent because silence is golden.”
The party has told Mkhwebane that is not necessary for her “to continue muddying the waters of fighting corruption with her constitutional illiteracy”.
"Her continued demonstrated constitutional illiteracy is putting the office of the public protector at risk," says Ndlozi.
On Tuesday President Zuma announced a commission of inquiry into state capture, headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, as recommended by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
In a statement, the presidency said the inquiry “must seek to uncover not just the conduct of some, but of all those who may have rendered our state or parts thereof vulnerable to control by forces other than the public for which government is elected.”
This in spite of the directive by former public protector Thuli Madonsela that the probe be aimed at the influence of the Gupta family on state institutions.