EFF, ATM want to force Parliament to hold the president accountable for failing to report the 2020 theft of undeclared foreign currency hidden in one of his farms
The EFF and the want the Constitutional Court to force Parliament to implement the report of the section 89 independent panel headed by retired Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo on the February 2020 theft of undeclared US dollars from President Cyril Ramaphosa ’s Phala Phala farm in Limpopo .
The party has asked the country’s highest court to further and/or alternatively declare that the NA’s failure and decision infringes the Constitution and substitute the decision with one stating that the report was adopted or alternatively referring the matter back to the house to vote on the reportIn addition, the EFF wants the NA’s presidential impeachment rules declared inconsistent with the Constitution as they allow MPs to vote against any possible impeachment proceedings in circumstances...
In its court papers, the EFF said Parliament, through its decision, allowed Ramaphosa to remain as president. Whatever loyalty ANC MPs have to the president, the proper exercise of their decision-making power to consider the panel’s report is limited. It is about acase. Anything else would be unlawful,” the country’s fourth biggest political party said.“ANC members were instructed to vote against the adoption of the report because the ANC had decided that was politically appropriate. The ANC concedes this. That is the true reason,” stated the EFF, describing this as not a legally cognisable answer.
In response to the EFF’s application, Ramaphosa explained that the Constitutional Court has already decided the issue. The governing party added that the panel’s report was riddled with legal and factual errors and clearly founded on conjecture and speculation as there were pending investigations, and its view was that it would be unconstitutional to proceed with the inquiry and was entitled to persuade its MPs to vote against the motion.
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