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Rais Cyril Ramaphosa amemsimamisha kazi Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Ujasusi, Imtiaz Fazel, baada ya malalamiko kuwasilishwa dhidi yake.
Katika taarifa iliyotolewa Jumatano jioni, msemaji wa Ikulu Vincent Magwenya alisema kuwa Fazel amesimamishwa kazi hadi uamuzi utakapofikiwa kuhusu uchunguzi wa mwenendo wake unaoendeshwa na Kamati ya Pamoja ya Bunge ya Kudumu ya Ujasusi (JSCI).
“JSCI imemjulisha Rais Ramaphosa kuwa imepokea malalamiko kuhusu mwenendo wa Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Ujasusi na kwamba kamati hiyo itafanya uchunguzi kwa mujibu wa vifungu 7(4) na 7(5) vya Sheria ya Huduma za Ujasusi (Sheria Namba 40 ya mwaka 1994).”
Soma Pia: Rais wa Afrika Kusini, Cyril Ramaphosa, amemsimamisha kazi Waziri wa Polisi kwa tuhuma za rushwa
Kifungu cha 7(5) cha sheria hiyo kinaeleza kuwa, “ikiwa Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Ujasusi ni mhusika katika uchunguzi unaoendeshwa na [JSCI] kwa mujibu wa kifungu kidogo cha (4), rais anaweza kumsimamisha kazi hadi uamuzi wa uchunguzi huo utakapofikiwa.”
Kusimamishwa kazi kunakuja wakati ambapo kamati maalum ya Bunge inasikiliza ushahidi kuhusu madai ya kuingiliwa kisiasa na rushwa ndani ya Jeshi la Polisi la Afrika Kusini (SAPS).
Kamati hiyo iliitishwa kufuatia madai ya Kamishna wa Polisi wa KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, kwamba mfumo wa haki za jinai umetekwa.
Kamati hiyo inaendeshwa sambamba na Tume ya Madlanga, ambayo rais aliianzisha kujibu madai ya Mkhwanazi.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended the Inspector-General of Intelligence, Imtiaz Fazel, after a complaint was lodged against him.
In a statement late on Wednesday evening, Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said Fazel was suspended pending a decision in an investigation into his conduct by Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI).
“The JSCI has informed President Ramaphosa that it has received a complaint on the conduct of the Inspector-General and that the committee will conduct an investigation in line with Sections 7(4) and 7(5) of the Intelligence Services Act (Act 40 of 1994).”
Section 7(5) of the act provides that “if the inspector-general is the subject of an investigation by the [JSCI] in terms of subsection (4), he or she may be suspended by the president pending a decision in such investigation.”
The suspension comes at a time when Parliament’s ad hoc committee is hearing testimony on alleged political interference and corruption within the SA Police Service (SAPS).
The committee was convened following KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegations that the criminal justice system had been captured.
The committee runs at the same time as the Madlanga Commission, which the president ordered in response to Mkhwanazi’s allegations.
Katika taarifa iliyotolewa Jumatano jioni, msemaji wa Ikulu Vincent Magwenya alisema kuwa Fazel amesimamishwa kazi hadi uamuzi utakapofikiwa kuhusu uchunguzi wa mwenendo wake unaoendeshwa na Kamati ya Pamoja ya Bunge ya Kudumu ya Ujasusi (JSCI).
“JSCI imemjulisha Rais Ramaphosa kuwa imepokea malalamiko kuhusu mwenendo wa Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Ujasusi na kwamba kamati hiyo itafanya uchunguzi kwa mujibu wa vifungu 7(4) na 7(5) vya Sheria ya Huduma za Ujasusi (Sheria Namba 40 ya mwaka 1994).”
Soma Pia: Rais wa Afrika Kusini, Cyril Ramaphosa, amemsimamisha kazi Waziri wa Polisi kwa tuhuma za rushwa
Kifungu cha 7(5) cha sheria hiyo kinaeleza kuwa, “ikiwa Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Ujasusi ni mhusika katika uchunguzi unaoendeshwa na [JSCI] kwa mujibu wa kifungu kidogo cha (4), rais anaweza kumsimamisha kazi hadi uamuzi wa uchunguzi huo utakapofikiwa.”
Kusimamishwa kazi kunakuja wakati ambapo kamati maalum ya Bunge inasikiliza ushahidi kuhusu madai ya kuingiliwa kisiasa na rushwa ndani ya Jeshi la Polisi la Afrika Kusini (SAPS).
Kamati hiyo iliitishwa kufuatia madai ya Kamishna wa Polisi wa KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, kwamba mfumo wa haki za jinai umetekwa.
Kamati hiyo inaendeshwa sambamba na Tume ya Madlanga, ambayo rais aliianzisha kujibu madai ya Mkhwanazi.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended the Inspector-General of Intelligence, Imtiaz Fazel, after a complaint was lodged against him.
In a statement late on Wednesday evening, Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said Fazel was suspended pending a decision in an investigation into his conduct by Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI).
“The JSCI has informed President Ramaphosa that it has received a complaint on the conduct of the Inspector-General and that the committee will conduct an investigation in line with Sections 7(4) and 7(5) of the Intelligence Services Act (Act 40 of 1994).”
Section 7(5) of the act provides that “if the inspector-general is the subject of an investigation by the [JSCI] in terms of subsection (4), he or she may be suspended by the president pending a decision in such investigation.”
The suspension comes at a time when Parliament’s ad hoc committee is hearing testimony on alleged political interference and corruption within the SA Police Service (SAPS).
The committee was convened following KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegations that the criminal justice system had been captured.
The committee runs at the same time as the Madlanga Commission, which the president ordered in response to Mkhwanazi’s allegations.
