STAFF REPORTER
THE Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Wednesday gave National Treasury seven days to remove former journalist Ranjeni Munusamy as Community Outreach Officer, saying it would approach the relevant authorities to see to her removal.
“The Economic Freedom Fighters rejects with contempt the appointment of Ranjeni Munusamy as the political secretary to the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni. Ranjeni Munusamy is an ex-journalist, ex-employee of the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust and the recipient of inexplicable money from the intelligence slush funds,” said the EFF in a statement.
The party said that State institutions were “being infiltrated by a cabal of highly compromised individuals”.
The statement also listed “undisputed evidence” from witnesses at the State Capture Commission of Inquiry, who said Munusamy was on the payroll of an intelligence slush fund, as a reason for her to be removed.
“Munusamy has since gone undercover, effectively confirming that she has indeed received unexplained, unaccounted and unlawful money from the intelligence slush funds. For a Minister of Finance to employ such a discredited and compromised human being to such a serious responsibility is not only irresponsible, but it is also reckless, dangerous and outrightly irrational,” the statement read.
“The EFF is aware that there are so many discredited individuals in the National Treasury, but the appointment of Ranjeni Munusamy is taking it too far. We demand that the Minister of Finance must immediately discontinue any contractual and employment relationship with Ranjeni Munusamy until the, thus far solid and believable, allegations have been cleared beyond any reasonable doubt.”
Munusamy was implicated by senior Hawks officer Kobus Roelofse, at the state capture commission in 2019.
The witness claimed the former journalist received money to settle the balance she owed on a car from a slush fund of Crime Intelligence.
An amount of R143 621.78 was allegedly transferred into a Wesbank account to settle a vehicle which was registered in Munusamy’s name in 2008.
She then applied to the Zondo Commission to cross-examine Roelofse.
In 2003, Munusamy was suspended by the newspaper after her admission that she passed a story on spy allegations involving the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, on to rival newspaper City Press.
The story ran by City Press alleged that Ngcuka could have been an agent for the Apartheid government.
Munusamy resigned before disciplinary measures were taken against her.
(COMPILED BY INSIDE POLITICS STAFF)
