Charge Nkandla corrupt - Gwede

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe wants to see those who benefited corruptly from the security upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead to be criminally pursued.
Speaking at an ANC NEC media briefing in Mpumalanga ahead of the ANC's launch of its election manifesto, Mantashe called on those who were scapegoats in the Nkandla saga to name the "political principals" involved.
"Those who will believe they are scapegoats because... they acted on directions of certain political principals have the responsibility to disclose who those political principals are," Mantashe said in a News24 report.
Mantashe said that the NEC had accepted the inter-ministerial task team's report on Nkandla but were still concerned about the amount that was spent on the security upgrades at the homestead.
"We are comfortable with the facts that are stated in the report of the inter-ministerial task team. We would be surprised if there is another set of facts that the Public Protector will depend on.
"Our understanding is that, throughout that investigation, the Public Protector herself was interacting with those ministers that are involved. So the set of facts will be the same," he said.
The ANC secretary general admitted that he was eager to read the Public Protector's report on Nkandla and called on her to release the report as soon as possible. Mantashe said that delaying the report further would smack of political motivation.
"The Public Protector has been working on that report for a long period of time. She has released the preliminary report and we are not expecting her to sit for another six months to release the report," Mantashe said.
"If [she] sits on the report and releases it close to the elections, we will actually assume that it is intended to tilt the balance of forces in the elections. We stand by that.
"[She] must release the report, the sooner the better, so that we can see both reports, see what the differences are, and have a public discussion [about them]."

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