’s Business Against Crime conference at the end of June, the new National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batohi, said her budget was “a massive problem” and that she was engaged in a “very strong budget diplomacy” with Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on the topic.
So far, the Treasury has looked askance at Parliament’s requests to increase the National Prosecution Authority’s budget. The 2018/19 budget review mentions the NPA only once, responding to a request from the Justice Portfolio Committee to increase the budget. In the NPA’s case, budget documents show that the salary bill is now 86% of the total expenditure. The Public Service Commission has made public servants an undertaking that the departments have struggled to implement, and the NPA is no exception.
The word is getting out there. In his State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa did say, “
Let the 'be linked to successes in recovery of stolen funds, prosecution and jailing (not medical parole) of statecapture and all forms of corruption including those in the NPA.
This new dawn crap we are still waiting for you to connect the dots and arrest criminals.
Tsek!!! U deserve to be boycotted
What will you do about this tito_mboweni ? NPA_Prosecutes PresidencyZA
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