DA asks Speaker Modise to provide reasons for failure to establish Covid-19 accountability committee
14 September 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will write to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Thandi Modise, asking her to level up with South Africans and provide reasons why she has failed to establish a Covid-19 accountability committee to look into procurement corruption that took place during the pandemic – 6 months after the DA submitted the request in March 2020.
Reports have since emerged of a plan by the ANC caucus in Parliament to engineer a cover up of Covid-19 corruption by blocking parliamentary oversight in order to control the “negative narrative” and ensure that “the party wasn’t embarrassed” as the country prepares for the 2021 local government elections.
It is disgraceful that the ANC is only concerned about its continued hold on power while ignoring growing calls by South Africans for accountability and transparency involving Covid-19 procurement.
That the ANC is prepared to ‘short-circuit’ Parliament’s role as an oversight body, is reflective of a party in denial about the cancer of corruption that has become endemic within its ranks.