ANC did not recommend action against General Masemola: Diko
ANC MP, Khuselo Diko says the ANC also did not the party call for his reinstatement.
African National Congress (ANC) MP Khusela Diko has stated that the party did not recommend any action against suspended National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola, nor did they call for his reinstatement. This revelation comes as deliberations continue over the draft report of the Ad Hoc Committee examining political interference and criminal infiltration within the criminal justice system.
Last week, the ANC suggested that the Ad Hoc Committee's report should highlight that Masemola had failed in his constitutional duties by not contesting the alleged unlawful instructions provided by Police Minister Senzo Mchunu to disband the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) and freeze positions at crime intelligence.
Diko emphasized that at no point did the ANC or the Ad Hoc Committee, to the best of her knowledge, recommend any further action against Masemola. "We didn’t call for his investigations. We didn’t call for him for not being reinstated. We didn’t call for anything of that nature," she affirmed. However, Diko stressed that the party has a responsibility to oppose unlawful instructions and believes it is crucial to prevent political influence in state institutions, empowering all accounting officers to resist unlawful directives from the executive authority.
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