No accountability for 94 deaths
THE death of 94 psychiatric patients in Gauteng after being moved from Life Esidimeni to NGOs is shocking, to say the least. And worse still no one is willing to take the blame, or admit culpability.
Gauteng Health MEC Mahlangu is a coward: She took the easy route by resigning from her highly paid job, instead of taking responsibility.
Even the Gauteng Premier David Makhura is hedging and not prepared to take the blame.
The health MEC and the premier are ANC deployees, and hence the ANC must also take responsibility for the atrocities.
The ANC are past masters of “taking collective responsibility” (remember their collective responsibility when they lost the three metros during the last August municipal elections instead of blaming Jacob Zuma).
Why are they not claiming collective responsibility for this debacle?
Health ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba must be complimented for not pulling his punches in his damning report and he pointed fingers straight at the Gauteng legislature.
The families of the victims (or deceased) are ready to begin their quest for justice and are preparing to sue the Gauteng government. But will this bring back to life those who have died?
I believe Mahlangu, Makhura and all those involved in the health departments and the NGOs must be brought to book. They must face the full might of the law: the DA and EFF have already laid criminal charges against these people, and I hope the whole issue is not swept under the carpet. MOHAMMED AHMED
Kloof