Phiyega makes damning claims against Claassen board of inquiry in court papers
Suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega has made damning allegations‚ in a high court application‚ against the board of inquiry looking into her fitness to hold office. Phiyega this week filed her founding affidavit in her bid to have the Pretoria High Court review and set aside the findings of the board of inquiry into her fitness to hold office. She is charging that the judge Neels Claassen-led board not only exceeded its mandate and made irrational findings‚ it even changed the findings of the Farlam report in an effort to find her guilty. The board found her guilty on three of the five allegations President Jacob Zuma instructed it to look into when he announced its establishment in late 2015. It has since recommended that she be fired. These were:
The decision taken to implement the "tactical option" ought reasonably to have foreseen the tragic and catastrophic consequences which ensued; That Phiyega deliberately concealed from the President the fact that ther...
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