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DA wants rethink on Pikoli
13/01/2008 17:34 - (SA)
Cape Town - President Thabo Mbeki should review his decision to suspend National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli, and his appointment of the Ginwala inquiry, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
"The DA insists that such a review takes place immediately and will ask for an urgent parliamentary debate on the matter," DA Parliamentary leader Sandra Botha said in a statement.
She said most South Africans believed Pikoli was suspended because of the NPA's investigation and intended prosecution of National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
"If this is true, then the political reasons that President Mbeki may have had to press ahead with the Ginwala Commission have all but disappeared," she said.
If it was not true, the time had come for Mbeki to reveal the real reasons.
Botha said Mbeki would be serving the best interests of the country if he allowed an independent review of whether Pikoli's suspension and the Ginwala appointment were "at all still relevant".
Mbeki last year appointed former Speaker of the National Assembly Frene Ginwala to probe whether Pikoli was fit to hold office, after suspending him in the wake of news that the Scorpions had obtained a warrant to arrest Selebi.
On Saturday, Mbeki announced that Selebi had been granted extended leave, as the NPA prepared to formally charge him with corruption.
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