Parliament’s legal services say there is nothing stopping MPs from processing the state capture commission reports, especially the sections pertaining to the institution and its oversight role.
This despite speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s earlier view that they should only be dealt with when President Cyril Ramaphosa tables the final Zondo report. ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina had said acting before Ramaphosa tabled the last report would be jumping the gun.
“Parliament can and should play an oversight role in these matters as these unfold,” states the legal opinion. “In order for parliament to effectively exercise its oversight functions that emanate from the report, it is necessary that the report be carefully scrutinised and that all matters which require further oversight by parliament be extracted and referred to the relevant portfolio committees.
Gwarube said Ramaphosa would table a report with an action plan as it pertains to the functions of the executive. Gwarube accused Mapisa-Nqakula of stalling this process in the National Assembly programming committee while sitting on a legal opinion drafted by parliament’s own legal services for several weeks.
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