The EFF condemns parliament's presence at the SARS media briefing earlier today regarding the KPMG scandalous report. It is puzzling why would the Parliament Sub-Committee on Public Account send a representative to form part of SARS' pronouncements on the KPMG scandalous withdrawal of its own report.

This gives the impression that SARS is run by parliament, defying the simple logic of separation of powers. It also creates an impression that parliament is agreed to and in support of the pronouncements of SARS.

The EFF will be writing to the Speaker of the National Assembly to call Nyami Booi and the SCOPA to order for attending this press conference and confusing the public. Parliament is meant to hold bodies like SARS accountable in particular in relation to this matter of the KPMG report that has brought the important institution of the tax collector into disrepute.

How then can this important work of holding SARS accountable be taken seriously when parliament is at the same time seen attending press conferences together with SARS. Nothing related to parliament was being discussed at the press conference, or even to the remit of SCOPA.

We are all, therefore, left to assume that Booi wanted to create an impression that in the war between KPMG and SARS or even former employees of SARS who lost their jobs due to the KPMG report parliament is in support of Tom Moyane and SARS. This is dangerous and must be condemned with the contempt it deserves.

 

Issued by EFF