The axing of NPA senior prosecutors Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi will enable the institution to rebuild itself, Freedom Under Law said.
Johannesburg - The axing of National Prosecuting Authority senior prosecutors Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi will enable the institution to rebuild itself free of ''their corrupt influences'', Freedom Under Law said on Friday.
''Under the leadership of new National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi, the NPA can today begin in earnest a process of rebuilding the institution, free of the corrupting influences of Jiba and Mrwebi.
''As is evident from the report and other information publicly disclosed about the workings of the NPA during Jiba and Mrwebi’s time there, they were not the only officials responsible for wrongdoing. But they were central to the wrongdoing and in sidelining, and, in several instances, persecuting those employees within the NPA intent on performing their constitutional operations, Jiba and Mrwebi’s corrupting influence was magnified.
Ramaphosa on Friday fired Jiba and Mrwebi as recommended by retired Justice Yvonne Mokgoro who chaired and heard damning evidence against the two state lawyers in February. Earlier this month, having received the final report, Ramaphosa sent it to Jiba and Mrwebi, asking them to respond to the findings in the form of written representations.
In the report, Mokgoro said the NPA Act makes it clear that interference with the work of the prosecutions authority is a crime. She said Jiba and Mrwebi were not fit to hold office and recommended to Ramaphosa that he remove the pair as deputy national director of public prosecutions and special director of public prosecutions, respectively.
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