Defence Minister refuses to reply to parliamentary questions and General Solly Shoke's international travel expenses
10 November 2014
The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, is trying to shield the Chief of the Defence Force, General Solly Shoke, from a full blown travel expense scandal in Parliament.
Without bothering to provide an explanation, the Minister refused to reply to written parliamentary questions, transferred to the oral question paper, in accordance with National Assembly 117(1), for reply on 05 November 2014.
The questions probed, inter alia, possible:
Excessive expenditure on General Shoke's trip to attend the Defence Service Asia Exhibition in Malaysia between 12 April 2014 and 18 April 2014; and