EFF WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE PARLIAMENT ZUMA QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
16 March 2016
The EFF will not participate in the Parliament Question and Answer session with Jacob Zuma scheduled to take place this Thursday. The EFF believes that Zuma should not be afforded the respect and courtesy deserving of a president because he does not respect his oath of office, including the calling of his office.
Zuma has stood in many Question and Answer sessions like this one and told members of parliament lies without any consequences. First, he said he received a loan from FNB to expand his private homestead in Nkndla when he did not. He also said there was no money he had to pay in relation to the Nkandla undue expenditure and later said he had not said so.
His actions have undermined the office of the Public Protector and sought to render ours a lawless country where a president cannot be held accountable. The constitution charges him as president to protect its institutions of democracy, and in defying the Public Protector he failed to protect the constitution.
His decisions to remove Finance Minister Nhlanla Nene without any provocation and replace him with a sophomore like David Van Royen led to a further decline of the economy. To this day, despite all the evidence, Zuma has not seen anything wrong with his decision on Nene and he goes on with business as usual whilst the economy suffers decline and job losses.