Security chiefs summoned to meeting after Pikoli suspension
Government’s top security chiefs were summoned to an urgent meeting in Pretoria yesterday to discuss the “implications of the situation” following the suspension of National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli.
The meeting of the national security council at the Union Buildings came shortly after government called opposition parties to a briefing to explain why President Thabo Mbeki had suspended Pikoli at the weekend.
Intelligence and defence force heavyweights like Barry Gilder from the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee, Manala Manzini, the director-general in the National Intelligence Agency, Defence Secretary January Masilela and Godfrey Ngwenya, chief of the SANDF, were just some of those at the meeting.
Yesterday, Director-General in the Presidency Frank Chikane said: “We need to deal with crime and we don’t want any dysfunctional ways in which people don’t operate according to the law.”
On Monday, government said that Pikoli, the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), had been suspended following an “irretrievable breakdown” between him and Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla. The move has surprised the country and sparked public concern.
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