Pikoli laughs off Public Protector role suggestions
25 May 2016
Cape Town - The former head of the National Prosecuting Authority laughed off suggestions that he be considered for the role of Public Protector once Thuli Madonsela's term ends in October.
"That's a naughty question," Vusi Pikoli, current head of the Western Cape's Police Ombudsman's office, said at the Big Issue's business breakfast on Wednesday.
He listed the Public Protector's office among institutions which anchor and strengthen the country's democracy. "If you are weakening those, you are weakening this democracy," he said.
In March, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in the Constitutional Court ruled that the Public Protector's remedial action against President Jacob Zuma over the upgrades to his Nkandla home were binding and that he had failed to uphold, defend and respect the Constitution.