DA welcomes Scopa’s revisiting of Arms Deal report

By Khanyisa Tabata
22 October 2009

The Democratic Alliance says it welcomes the fact that the Standing Committee on Public Accounts has distributed copies of the key material that shows how the Joint Investigation Report into the Arms Deal was altered to absolve senior ANC officials from guilt.

DA’s Mark Steele says despite the fact that cast-iron evidence has been available in the public domain for nearly half a decade, showing definitively how the Arms Deal report was whitewashed.

“These draft reports were made available via court order, in December 2004, but up until now have never been formally reviewed by a parliamentary committee”.

“Handwritten notes appear on many of these documents though their author is unknown, they appear to have been made during a meeting with then senior ANC officials, including former President Mbeki,” said Steele .