ANC abuses Legislature resources
for campaign work
By
BRIAN KAJENGO
The DA will ask the Public
Protector to investigate the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature’s voter
education programme set to take place across the province this week, as it is
nothing more than a thinly disguised ANC electioneering campaign.
Members of the Provincial
Legislature informed of the programme, set to start in Middelburg today, late
last week, more than a week after Legislature has risen.
There is absolutely no doubt that
the ANC is using this voter education programme as a smokescreen to lay their
hands on Legislature resources to contest the 2014 elections, despite the fact
that the 2009-2014 Legislature session has risen, and will only be reconvened
after the elections.
That said, any and all activities
of the Legislature, including committees, sittings of the house and public
participation programmes have to cease, and MPLs have not officially recalled
from constituency recess to conduct Legislature business.
The election campaign is in full
swing and political parties should pay for their own campaigns, and the DA will
not sit by and watch as public funds abused on yellow T-shirts, VIP
accommodation, meals and transport as a fig leaf for the ANC’s campaign.
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