MKP promises 'robust' questioning of Mchunu to uncover truth about police corruption

The uMkhonto we Sizwe Party's (MKP) Sibonelo Nomvalo has identified numerous contradictions in suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's testimony, vowing that his party will conduct robust questioning when they face him next week.

Nomvalo, part of Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations made by SAPS KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, said that they will be robust when they question Mchunu on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, today is not our opportunity to ask questions to him, it's the opportunity of the evidence leader. We will get an opportunity next week on Tuesday, and when we get an opportunity, we don't play around. We use it effectively. We become robust. We ask questions without any fear of confrontation. We will do so because nothing must be left unturned.

“We must make sure that we focus on each and every aspect of the testimony, like we did when General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi appeared before the committee,” Nomvalo said.

“We never got excited. We didn't want to fall into a trap of wanting to impress a popular view in the public. What drove us was an intention and a motive of a fact-finding mission.

“We established and we espoused a process of ensuring that we become inquisitive, with a view of getting answers to all allegations that were made. So, we'll do the same with the minister.”

Nomvalo said that they are going to be very hard on him, but not because they have anything personal against him, “but because we want to get the truth and the truth must prevail”.

“I think the time for lying is enough. Like they say, lies have short legs - they run faster, but they do not finish the race. So now lies, because we're approaching the end of the race, must just remain behind, and never finish the race. We're at that stage now,” Nomvalo said.

“South Africans must know the truth. We must identify and isolate the truth from lies so that all the challenges that are facing SAPS will be arrested, because SAPS is an overarching component in the value chain of the South African justice system, and if there's a rot in SAPS, then that means the whole South African justice system is rotten to the core, because SAPS is at an entry level.

“Judges and the prosecutors can't do anything without SAPS. If it's rotten therein, then the whole justice system is actually rotten,” Nomvalo said.

theolin.tembo@inl.co.za