Top cop fingers MPs

COMMISSION: ‘DA'S KOHLER BARNARD INTERFERED IN POLITICAL KILLINGS TEAM’ »» National Coloured Congress’ Adams exposed intelligence.

- Molefe Seeletsa

KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has implicated DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria for allegedly interfering in police work.

The commission, chaired by Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, is probing allegations of political interference and corruption in the law enforcement and judicial system.

Mkhwanazi alleged that both Kohler Barnard and National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams had exposed classified intelligence material.

He said that while Adams was new in parliament, Kohler Barnard was a long-serving MP and a member of the joint standing committee on intelligence, who knew how to properly handle sensitive information.

"Ms Kohler Barnard is a veteran in parliament as a lawmaker who ought to understand what belongs where in parliament," Mkhwanazi said.

"So, she is better positioned to call the department to account on the right platform."