The Democratic Alliance said Public Service and Administration Minister, Faith Muthambi, should be subpoenaed to appear before a Parliamentary Committee.
Muthambi was a no-show at this week’s meeting of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration to answer questions about allegations that she had spent nearly R500 000 in public funds to have friends and family attend her budget vote in Cape Town in May.
The Committee meeting was chaired by rebel ANC MP, Dr Makhosi Khoza, who was removed from the role by the governing party because of her outspoken opposition to President Jacob Zuma.
DA MP, Mike Waters, said Friday that he would be writing to the Acting Secretary to Parliament, Penelope Tyawa, to ensure that “bunking Minister of Public Service and Administration, Faith Muthambi, be subpoenaed to appear before her portfolio committee at the soonest possible date.”
He said the “ANC’s disgraceful decision to fire the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, Makhosi Khoza, will not allow Muthambi to escape accountability.”
Waters said that Muthambi inexplicably failed to appear before her committee on 15 August, despite travelling to Cape Town and giving assurances that she would appear.
He said portfolio committee had passed a unanimous resolution to have her summoned to appear before the committee.
“That resolution stands and Muthambi must be summoned. If she fails to appear next time, following the summons, she will be liable to a fine or imprisonment,” he said.
