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Jacob Zuma’s challenge to the state capture commission was “a flagrant violation of the fundamental constitutional value of responsibility, which upholds the rule of law,” the commission’s attorneys said Friday.
With Zuma saying earlier in the week that he would not participate in the commission’s case brought before the Constitutional Court, the state capture commission went ahead and presented its legal argument in its request to force the former president to comply with the subpoena and go to the commission. and answer questions.
In arguments presented on Friday, the commission’s attorney, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC, said that by refusing to participate: “Mr. Zuma has once again avoided accountability for his conduct.
“He has refused to participate at all in these proceedings, to explain his conduct in the commission. This, we believe, aggravates the problem and reinforces the need for the intervention of this court ”.
Ngcukaitobi said that the constitutional duty of accountability included two aspects: the duty to justify one’s conduct and decisions, and the duty to take responsibility for the exercise of public power. The point of testifying before the state capture commission was to comply with both, he said.
Then, the headings of the argument – in eight pages – “highlight” some of the allegations that the commission had asked Zuma to address, “and that, to date, it has not addressed on the merits.”
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