Speaker Baleka Mbete raps police minister’s criticism of parliament over McBride
National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete hit out on Friday at Police Minister Nathi Nhleko, who criticised parliament for not instituting an inquiry into Robert McBride. Nhleko wrote to Mbete last month after the Constitutional Court declared as unconstitutional the powers the minister used to suspend McBride as executive director of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate. Nhleko then asked parliament to look into opening an inquiry into McBride, an action that would empower Nhleko to suspend him again. Mbete responded a month later, saying only the National Assembly could make such a determination, and referred the matter to the police committee which concurred with her.
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