President Jacob Zuma chairing the Black Economic Empowerment Advisory Council (BEEAC) workshop, focusing on Radical Socio-Economic Transformation at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria. 20 June 2017. (GCIS)
“I am a scapegoat for the real looters” – says Jacob Zuma in court affidavit
Jacob Zuma wants all the smoke…
President Jacob Zuma chairing the Black Economic Empowerment Advisory Council (BEEAC) workshop, focusing on Radical Socio-Economic Transformation at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria. 20 June 2017. (GCIS)
Former president Jacob Zuma, on Wednesday, filed an affidavit requesting a permanent stay of prosecution in his corruption case. in colloquial terms, he wants the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to get off his ****.
Jacob Zuma accuses NPA of unfairly targeting him
The 300-page application, according to an article on The Star Early Edition that’s written by Bheki Mbanjwa, was really a lengthy lashing at the NPA by Zuma, who claims, among other things, that people are out to attack him.
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He believes that besides actually presenting concrete proof of his guilt in many of the cases he has been dealing with, the NPA has only managed to drag his name through the mud for 17 years.
Msholozi went on to lament on how the NPA has failed to produce any tangible evidence to tie him onto every crime he has been tied to, even dating back to the Khwezi scandal.
“If there was ever a case in post-apartheid South Africa with the most grotesque violation of the rights of an accused, my prosecution is such a case,”
Zuma exclaimed in his affidavit.
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Zuma terms his ‘witch hunt’ as perfect distraction for real looters
He further cited the carelessness of the NPA in handling his case, proof enough to him that this was a manhunt that was politically-influenced since the days former president Thabo Mbeki had fired him as Deputy President.
Putting himself above the looting rot he has been associated with for over a decade, Zuma claimed that the NPA was like a dog chasing its tail while the ‘real’ looters were enjoying an unbothered peace since they (NPA) were so fixated on nailing him.
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“Since I was charged I have become the scapegoat for those who themselves seek to engage in sophisticated looting of the state resources while they lull society into believing that they act in its interests,”
Zuma added.
In summation of the lengthy application, Zuma believes that he is being treated unfairly. His position is, “if I am so guilty, why have I not been prosecuted and convicted?”
Zuma will wait to hear from the Durban High Court of the outcome of his application.
