Shaun Abrahams shows an appalling disdain for public accountability, says AIDS scientist Salim Abdool Karim
Acclaimed HIV/AIDS researcher Prof Salim Abdool Karim has castigated National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams, for failing to act against those implicated in the public protector’s State of Capture report. In a hard-hitting letter to Abrahams on Wednesday‚ Karim also described the National Prosecuting Authority boss’s decision to grant President Jacob Zuma an extension to make representations on his 783 charges as "shockingly inappropriate". "As an AIDS researcher in a country with more than 7-million people living with HIV‚ I watch each day as corruption rapidly overtakes HIV infection as the most serious scourge in SA‚" wrote Karim to Abrahams. Karim’s letter was a follow-up to another letter he wrote to Abrahams on October 2 where he asked him why the NPA had not yet prosecuted anyone implicated in the State of Capture report. He said in that letter that he had noted that while 333 days had passed since the public protector had notified Abrahams about the report‚ t...
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