Maimane calls on Zuma to suspend NPA head Shaun Abrahams

DA leader Mmusi Maimane says he has written to President Jacob Zuma calling on him to immediately suspend National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Advocate Shaun Abrahams in line with the NPA Act pending a full parliamentary inquiry into his fitness to hold office.

“Since his appointment in 2015, Abrahams has overseen the complete politicisation of the National Prosecuting Authority, whereby an entrenched culture of selective prosecution has seen looting and theft of public money on a scale never seen before.

“Instead of ensuring the law applies equally to everyone, Abrahams has safeguarded certain individuals from prosecution and from facing the full might of the law. His complete silence and lack of action regarding clear acts of grand corruption and state capture by a small political elite – spearheaded by the Guptas – shows he is both unfit and unable to hold the office of NDPP [National Director of Public Prosecutions],” Maimane said in a statement on Tuesday.

He has accused Abrahams of being hellbent on protecting the corrupt and the well-connected, saying earlier this year he had laid criminal charges against individuals “who have captured our state and stolen public money”, among them the Gupta brothers and their associates, as well as Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba, Zuma himself and his son, Duduzane.

“Since then, there has been no further action, investigation, or condemnation” by Abrahams and the NPA, Maimane said, adding the controversial leaked Gupta emails in the public domain should be subject to immediate investigation by law enforcement authorities in a functioning democracy.

“It is clear to anyone that Adv. Abrahams has failed this requirement – numerous times – and must be suspended pending a full parliamentary inquiry into his fitness to hold office in line with section 12(6) of the NPA Act,” Maimane said.

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