Why former NDPP Vusi Pikoli decided to charge Zuma with corruption | J_chabalala
Former National Director of Public Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli has laid bare the reasons why he decided to institute corruption charges against former president Jacob Zuma in 2005.
He added that the prosecuting team brought the evidence to his attention and that it was evidence which was not in front of Ngcuka at the time he took his decision. Pikoli said Ngcuka had decided there was insufficient admissible evidence incriminating Zuma for a prosecution against him to proceed. But Pikoli said following the briefing by the prosecution team on June 17, 2005 and discussions with senior advisers at the NPA, as well as his own detailed consideration of the trial court's judgment in the Shaik matter - he concluded that there was indeed a reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution of Zuma.
"In the light of my assessment of those matters, I believed that the interests of justice required that Mr Zuma be prosecuted. What I did not do was try and put myself in the shoes of Mr Ngcuka and second-guess his decision based on the evidence available to him at the time he took it.
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