The Mokgoro inquiry has released a report finding that the Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi are not fit to hold their senior positions at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), recommending that President Cyril Ramaphosa shows them the door.
Suspended NPA official, Advovate Nomgcobo Jiba, gives evidence before the Mokgoro Commission of Inquiry into her fitness to hold office. PHOTO: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA)
“The series of Jiba’s decisions taken in her capacity as ANDPP, which were all set aside on review, the comments and criticisms levelled against her by the courts have brought the NPA into disrepute.”
Mrwebi, meanwhile, was found to have failed to act without favour, prejudicing the NPA in the process, and also “showed himself to lack an understanding of the law and the legal process”.
“The courts have leveled criticisms and concerns in the manner in which Mrwebi has discharged the duties of his office and conducted himself towards the courts. Mrwebi’s conduct was openly at variance with what is expected of a person in his position,” the report states.
“Mrwebi’s lack of appreciation regarding his behaviour in keeping secret the representations from criminal suspects implicated in the investigation carried out by the NPA into alleged improprieties perpetrated by officials of Crime Intelligence and his admission that he took those representations into account without verifying the truthfulness of their contents, confirms that his decision to withdraw the prosecution of Mdluli was irrational and unlawful,” according to Mokgoro.
(Compiled by Daniel Friedman)
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