Question NW2927 to the Minister of Home Affairs
17 December 2020 - NW2927
van der Merwe, Ms LL to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
(1)Following his comments that his department led by the Acting Director-General, Mr Jackie McKay, did due diligence to ensure that the self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary Bushiri were not on the plane with the President of Malawi, what does he make of reports that in fact his statements to Parliament on Tuesday 17 November were not correct and that the Bushiris did leave on the plane with the Malawian President; (2) whether he will launch an investigation into whether any officials of his department were involved in the unlawful exit of the Bushiris from the Republic; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the details of the investigation that will be conducted?
Reply:
1. Honourable member, I told the committee what I know according to information at my disposal. If some people have information to the contrary, then they are duty bound to bring it out into the open. I suggest you approach them to provide proof of their statements. Honestly, I don’t know what they are talking about.
2. The total investigation around the whole Bushiri matter are being conducted by a Joint Team of the whole Justice, Peace and Crime Prevention Cluster. When it is completed, the country shall be informed accordingly.
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