ADVOCATE Shamila Batohi has warned that impending budgets would negatively affect the National Prosecuting Authority’s ability to fight crime and corruption.
Batohi was briefing Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Justice and correctional services on the NPA’s annual report in the past year and the first quarter of this year as part of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations process.
She said that if the proposed budget cuts were to be implemented, the NPA would lose R1.1 billion of the R1.3 billion cash injection it was given last year.
Batohi told the committee that, when she joined the organisation, she found it was under-resourced in terms of skill, capacity and funding, and had lost credibility, and that staff morale was at an all-time low.
An additional budget allocation had been vital to rebuilding an independent, professional, accountable and credible NPA, and embarking on the biggest recruitment drive in the organisation’s history to appoint
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