As the scandal around the grand scale of looting around the now defunct VBS Mutual Bank in Limpopo continues to unravel, with different politicians and political parties implicated, Limpopo Premier, Dr Phophi Ramathuba says law enforcement agencies must be given space to do their work.
The former Limpopo health MEC said the case of the looting of the VBS Mutual Bank is particularly heartbreaking because it was poor community members who were robbed of their investments.
“We don’t want to lie to you, the VBS case is something that will haunt us for a very long time especially that the people who are involved are vulnerable and the poor,” Ramathuba spoke to broadcaster Newzroom Afrika at Parliament ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address.
“We would like to appeal to everyone to respect the law enforcement agencies in this country and give them the space to do their work.
“It is unfortunate that people want us to act and pronounce individuals guilty when they have not even be charged by the court of law. The ANC does have its own policies that we adopted in our congress (for example) the step-aside policy – when a deployee of the ANC [is] expected to step aside.”
She has said she does not know of any ANC deployee serving in government who has been charged for a criminal offence and refused to step aside.
Ramathuba said implicated people should not be tried in the court of public opinion.
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