PHUTI MOSOMANE
BANTU Holomisa, leader of the United Democratic Movement (UDM), has requested that President Cyril Ramaphosa establish a commission of inquiry to investigate the fitness of National Director for Public Prosecutions, Adv Shamila Batohi, to hold office.
He has also urged for her temporary suspension until the inquiry’s conclusion.
“There is no evidence that Advocate Batohi has done anything to fulfil her obligations as directed by the Constitution. The two recent judgments, one at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Court and the other at the Bloemfontein High Court provide overwhelming evidence that Advocate Batohi did not comply with her constitutional obligations and failed to make the required interventions to ensure that policy directives are complied with,” Holomisa said on Monday.
Holomisa has cited a February 2023 unanimous judgment by a full bench in a Dubai court, which rejected an application to extradite the Gupta brothers, Atul Kumar Gupta and
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