NPA boss Batohi demands police hand over prosecutors allegedly tied to criminal syndicates

NDPP calls for accountability amid serious allegations at inquiry

- MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA

NATIONAL Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Advocate Shamila Batohi, yesterday said she will write to national police commissioner Fannie Masemola to ask for information regarding the prosecutors who were allegedly participating in ensuring criminal syndicates evade justice.

Testifying at the parliamentary inquiry probing allegations made by KZN police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, Batohi said there were no names provided by Mkhwanazi when he made the explosive allegations at a media briefing on July 6.

‘I will write to the National Commissioner to ask him to reveal that, we want the names of those prosecutors that General Mkhwanazi alleged are involved in any kind of criminal activities. This is something we have to investigate,’ she said.

Batohi was responding to a question by ANC MP Xola Ngola on whether she has established the veracity of the allegations made by Mkhwanazi and set up mechanisms to ensure such things do not happen.

Ngola noted that Chief Justice Mandisa Maya had called for those who had information about implicated members of the judiciary to come forward.

According to Batohi, Mkhwanazi did not mention names at the media briefing, and she did not know whether he was pressed to reveal the names at the inquiry.