AfriForum bids to privately prosecute NPA’s Jiba
DISGRACED National Prosecuting Authority deputy director Advocate Nomgcoba Jiba is firmly in the sights of private prosecutor Gerrie Nel.
Nel‚ through civil rights organisation AfriForum‚ announced yesterday that Jiba would be prosecuted for alleged fraud‚ perjury and defeating the ends of justice.
Jiba was disbarred by the Roll of Advocates in September last year because of three adverse findings against her by different courts in the country.
AfriForum has requested a private prosecution certificate from Jiba’s boss‚ Shaun Abrahams‚ who has up until now refused to prosecute her despite NPA legal opinion stating that she should be prosecuted.
AfriForum head Kallie Kriel said the charges stemmed from Jiba’s repeated malicious attempts to have former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss MajorGeneral Johan Booysen prosecuted for racketeering.
The racketeering charges are in connection with Booysen’s apparent overseeing of an alleged police death squad in the province.
Booysen has won seven separate court fights against Jiba in the past.
Booysen and AfriForum say that Jiba’s charging of him stems from his relentless pursuit of KwaZulu-Natal businessman and close President Jacob Zuma family ally Thoshan Panday.
Kriel‚ announcing the private prosecution‚ said they had written to the NPA yesterday requesting a private prosecution certificate.
“We don’t believe it is going to be easy,” he said.
“In fact we believe it is going to be quite a battle to obtain this certificate because of all the protection of key Zuma allies that is going on in our state institutions. Institutions like the NPA are captured.
“We are not saying that there are no good people in the NPA but there are people‚ like Abrahams‚ who have shown that they are captured.”
He said they believed that Jiba had committed fraud‚ perjury and defeated the ends of justice by having Booysen charged with racketeering‚ attempting to stop the prosecution of Panday‚ and for repeatedly lying in court‚ for “which she was caught out on several times by different courts”.
“There exists irresistible inference that Booysen was targeted unlawfully by Jiba after Booysen started investigating the business operations of Panday.”