DA calls for NPA boss to be suspended for being ‘politically compromised’
DA leader Mmusi Maimane has called on President Jacob Zuma to suspend National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Shaun Abrahams‚ accusing the country’s chief prosecutor of being politically compromised. Maimane said he had written a letter to Zuma‚ "calling on him to immediately suspend the National Director of Public Prosecutions‚ Adv Shaun Abrahams‚ in line with Section 12(6) of the NPA Act‚ pending an enquiry into his fitness to hold office". Maimane said that since his appointment in 2015‚ "Abrahams has overseen the complete politicisation of the NPA‚ whereby an entrenched culture of selective prosecution has seen looting and theft of public money on a scale never seen before".
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