IT APPEARS that Inkwazi is not on the radar of Parliament’s joint standing committee on defence for the current term‚ despite several attempts by the DA to get an update "on the situation regarding the presidential jet".The party’s Kobus Marais said it was unacceptable that there was "no provision made in the committee’s third term to deal with this matter"."To add insult to injury‚ the meeting scheduled for today‚ in which the DA would have raised this concern again‚ has also been cancelled‚ further delaying the exercise of any oversight in this regard‚" Marais said on Friday.He said Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula had "been evasive in answering questions and the committee has a duty to conduct this probe"‚ adding that a "sitting of this committee would not jeopardise the ‘national security’ that has‚ in the past‚ been used as a pretext to avoid scrutiny in matters of defence".READ THIS: Mmusi Maimane tells Jacob Zuma that his ‘lifestyle is coming to an end’Marais suggeste...
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