Graft bombshell has citizens fuming

SO, THE president didn’t know what was allegedly happening in his own office? Are we to believe he hadn’t a clue of what was happening under his very nose? I am incredulous.

This is alleged corruption in the throne room, at the heart of power, so to speak. Can he be trusted with the R70billion loan from the IMF? Heads must roll, I agree with your front page headline story, The Mercury, July 28. But will it happen?

People are angry. Right now they are muttering under their breath while they face a trifecta in the form of the Covid-19 infections, no jobs and all the severe restrictions imposed in terms of the Disaster Management Act. And now this, a bombshell that there was allegedly somebody engorging themselves in his own office, and he hadn’t a clue? I don’t buy it.

I demand that civilian investigators and independent forensic experts plumb the murky depths, for Khusela Diko and her husband could not have allegedly acted alone.

Where are we headed? Thirty-six cases of fraud investigations ordered by presidential proclamation isn’t going to assuage and comfort millions of people who got up hungry and cold to read your headline screaming from the street poles.

We are not talking of corruption during the decade of Jacob Zuma, but of fraud and corruption during our current president. Maybe the president and his Cabinet should relax the ban on alcohol and cigarettes so that people who do smoke and consume alcohol can indulge and calm their nerves.

I am appalled and I demand that civilian investigators be included in the investigations. The thinking is that pending the outcome, all those implicated in the alleged crime should be suspended without pay. I don’t agree about the suspension without pay part, but I concur they should be suspended and removed from office without further ado.