AfriForum will file criminal charges against Nkabinde due to false allegations of conspiracy
The civil rights organisation AfriForum will lay criminal charges against Cedric Nkabinde, chief of staff to Minister Senzo Mchunu, for deliberately giving false evidence before a parliamentary ad hoc committee investigating Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s revelations. AfriForum strongly denies Nkabinde’s allegations before this committee that AfriForum participated in a plot against former police commissioner, Khomotso Phahlane. According to AfriForum, the deliberate giving of false evidence before parliament is punishable by a fine or imprisonment for a maximum of two years or both in terms of section 12(2)(e) Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliaments Act (Act 4 of 2004).
Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, challenges Nkabinde to take a lie detector test regarding his allegations. “AfriForum is willing to pay the costs of the test and I myself am willing to take the test with Nkabinde,” says Kriel.
According to Kriel, Nkabinde has already proven himself to be an unreliable witness before the committee by contradicting himself. “Nkabinde claims that the meeting in which AfriForum was involved to plan Phahlane’s downfall would take place at the end of 2017 or in 2018. This while Phahlane was already dismissed from his position on 1 June 2017,” Kriel adds.
Kriel points out that Nkabinde’s testimony is also unreliable because he was unable to name the person from AfriForum who would supposedly help concoct the “plot”. According to Kriel, Nkabinde’s testimony is exposed as false because he (Kriel) has never met Nkabinde or Robert McBride and that he has never been to Paul O’Sullivan’s house where the alleged plot would supposedly be planned.
