By Mandisi Tyulu
21 November 2008
President Kgalema Motlanthe has been asked to sign the Scorpion’s Bill after MPs yesterday put their final stamp of approval on laws which will effectively bury the unit.
Scorpions’ investigators are set to be incorporated into a new organised crime unit under the SAPS wing.
DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard says by putting the authorities under one banner simply makes them more vulnerable to corruption from the inside.
“Who is going to prosecute the politicians”, said Kohler Barnard.
“The only logical conclusion that the directorate of special prosecutions had to disbanded was to prevent current corruption charges against ANC members as well as future charges that’s the only logic’’, says D.A’s Dian Kohler Barnard.
In welcoming the final ratification of the bills, rival ANC MP Maggie Sotyu defended the police saying that there is confidence in the police and that Barnard is obsessed with Jackie Selebi
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