DA to ask Parliament to vote for suspensions of NPA and Hawks bosses
The DA plans to use parliamentary mechanisms to have National Prosecutions Authority head Shaun Abrahams and Hawks chief Berning Ntlemeza suspended over scandals dogging the two offices. The party will push a private member’s bill for the removal of national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) Abrahams with a vote of at least two-thirds in the National Assembly. The Constitution does not now provide for the removal of the national director of public prosecutions. The National Prosecuting Authority Act concentrates this power in the office of the president. The Helen Suzman Foundation and Freedom Under Law have written to President Jacob Zuma asking him to consider suspending Abrahams following the NPA’s decision to charge Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and later drop the charges. DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach told reporters in Parliament that Abrahams’s missteps included dropping perjury charges against Nomgcobo Jiba in 2015, reinstating charges against KwaZulu-Natal Hawks commander...
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