Mchunu: 'buck stops with Cyril'

ANC STALWART: SA IS AVOIDING THE QUESTION – WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT LOOKING?

- Eric Mthobeli Naki

ANC stalwart and former party treasurer-general Mathews Phosa is challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa to come clean and reveal where he was looking when his ally and then minister of police Senzo Mchunu halted investigations by the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) and dissolved the team.

He said that while he would like to avoid preempting the outcome of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, it was clear that senior politicians collaborate with criminals, and it continues unchecked while the president keeps quiet about it.

Yet, as the president, he should know, because the buck stops with him.

"Where was the president looking when this happened? The buck stops with him," Phosa said, in an interview with The Citizen, days after he published his biography titled Witness To Power: A Political Memoir.

Phosa, who claimed there is collusion between top politicians and thugs, including killers and thieves who loot state resources, said Ramaphosa, as president, must account for what his minister did.

The PKTT case might be the tip of the iceberg, as there was a widespread corrupt relationship between politicians and thugs, as shown by Mchunu's actions.

He said what emerged from the Madlanga commission about Mchunu, who stopped an investigation into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal, is a typical example of how politicians collude with thugs to commit crime, or stop the prosecution of the thugs.

He said the minister was protecting the murderers behind these killings, which is collusion with criminals.