prosecutions
Can Shamila Batohi deal with the bad cops and bad lawyers?
Law enforcement authorities face tough questions about the endless delays in high-profile corruption matters. A new report by civil society organisation Open Secrets investigates whether the reluctance to fire bad officials at the NPA and the Hawks has contributed to delays in state capture prosecutions. The FM put this to the national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi
25 August 2022 - 05:00
Politics will not put the brakes on bringing to book those who were involved in state capture or corruption if national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi has anything to do with it.
“The rule of law means you prosecute when you have the evidence,” the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head tells the FM in a wide-ranging interview. “It doesn’t matter whether a [political] conference is happening or not. Whether we move in a month, two months, three months, four months, whether we move on the day of the conference, it doesn’t matter.”..
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