Anti-corruption expert Advocate Paul Hoffman SC calls for the disbandment of IDAC and the establishment of a new Chapter 9 corruption fighting institution that would be independent from the government executive.
The Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) should shut down and be replaced by a new corruption-fighting entity, independent of political office, to operate without fear of political interference, said corruption expert Paul Hoffman.
Hoffman made the suggestion in reaction to a public drama that occurred at the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria last week.
Hoffman said even some of the corruption-investigating officers of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), better known as the Hawks, should be transferred to the new body, which would comprise IDAC officers.
The July 18 drama unfolded publicly when Crime Intelligence (CI) head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and the entity’s Intelligence Analysis and Coordination head, Major-General Nosipho Madondo, presented themselves at the police station to be arrested by IDAC, an entity of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
