Cape Town - Members
of the Public Enterprises Committee on Wednesday called for a motion of
confidence in advocate Ntuthuzelo Vanara who is currently the evidence leader of
Parliament’s inquiry into state capture at Eskom.
Zukile
Luyenge (ANC) said he was perturbed about the attacks on Vanara during the
previous day’s events.
This follows after Public Enterprises Minister Lynne
Brown and her deputy Ben Martins raised concerns about the manner in which the
inquiry is being conducted.
Brown said in a statement
issued on Tuesday that she had written three letters regarding the inquiry, raising
procedural issues‚ such as that the evidence leader has a “conflicted
role".
She further said Vanara had allowed testimony
implicating people without advising those people that would be implicated‚ thereby
"violating their human dignity".
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, also an
ANC committee member, seconded Luyenge’s stance, saying the committee should “formally
move and adopt a motion of confidence” in Vanara as evidence leader.
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