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Original Post Date: 2008-02-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Wendy Jasson Da Costa and Boyd Webb
Suspended NPA boss Vusi Pikoli says if a better crime-fighting machine is created with the amalgamation of the Scorpions and the police’s Organised Crime Unit (OCU), then he would support the move.
“The country can’t afford to be without a crime fighting unit like the Scorpions,” said Pikoli.
This comes after Safety and Security minister Charles Nqakula on Tuesday announced that the “best” investigators from the two units would be put together as a “reconstructed organised crime fighting unit” under the leadership of the South African Police Service.
| ‘The country can’t afford to be without a crime fighting unit like the Scorpions’ |
Nqakula said this meant that the Scorpions would be dissolved and the OCU phased out to form the new unit.
Pikoli on Tuesday said he was not “overly surprised” by the news considering the noises being made by the ANC, but maintained that there was “still no legal or constitutional reason to disband the unit”.
Pikoli was suspended by President Thabo Mbeki following a breakdown in relations between himself and Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Brigitte Mabandla, to whom he was answerable.
Nqakula’s announcement, made during the State of the Nation debate in the National Assembly, was met with shock in policing circles.
NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali refused to comment on the matter and it is believed the body’s acting national director advocate Mokotedi Mpshe has also been left out of the loop by Nqakula.
It’s understood, however, that Mpshe, who is currently in Kimberly, will be contacting the minister very soon to find out what was going on.
The Public Servants Association yesterday said although it would not become involved in the political issues it was concerned about the implications for the more than 200 Scorpions and NPA members who belonged to the union.
Even the Police and Civil Rights Union (Popcru) was caught off-guard by the news.
“We can’t comment until we know what is going on,” spokesperson Abbey Witbooi said on Tuesday night.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said Nqakula’s announcement finally confirmed that ANC president Jacob Zuma and not Mbeki was in control of the party and government.
DA spokesperson on Safety and Security Dianne Kohler Barnard said: “The Minister of Safety and Security has utterly exceeded his mandate by announcing, that the Scorpions will be disbanded.
“This comes hard on the heels of the president’s assurances that the discussions about the Scorpions would be ‘informed by the recommendations of the Khampepe Judicial Commission’ in his State of the Nation speech last Friday.
“It is now obvious that the president’s words were nothing but an attempt to mislead both Parliament and the public.”