EFF statement on parliament bouncers’ assault dress rehearsal
5 August 2015
The EFF has learnt that members of the new division of the Parliamentary Protection Services specializing in bouncer functions is currently in a dress rehearsal on how they plan to assault members of the EFF during the questions session with Zuma tomorrow. This new division is composed of members of the SAPS who were used earlier this year to assault members of EFF during the state of the nation address.
The EFF would like to reiterate that it will never be intimidated by all these efforts by the ANC controlled parliament to use force and protect Zuma against a question. We shall never retreat from our determination to ask critical questions and also demand Zuma to respect parliament, the Public Protector and the constitution.
Nothing, including unjust rules of parliament will stop us. The EFF has always said it will defy unjust laws and any rule designed to suppress opposition from holding the executive accountable which is unconstitutional and unjust and will be met with defiance from the EFF benches.
We offer free advice to the Speaker of parliament that she must come prepared to tell Zuma to answer the question as to when is he going to pay back the money unduly spent in Nkandla. The ANC has manipulated all other opposition parties into agreeing to bury the Public Protector’s report and have parliament go on as of its business as usual. They have done this by convincing them to participate in a legally baseless Ad Hoc Committee to subject the Public Protectors report to an illegitimate scrutiny led by Zuma’s garden boy Minister Nhleko. This has produced an undesirable situation of the delay of justice, and justice delayed is justice denied.