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Trade union federation Cosatu says it does not question the need for the state to take adequate measures to secure the President and other public office bearers.
However, Cosatu says its shocked at the amount of money spent on security upgrades at president Jacob Zuma's private residence at Nkandla.
Public Works Minister, Thulas Nxesi, said while no public money was spent on the president's acutal residence, R71 million had been spent on security upgrades and that a total of R206 million of public money has been spent on this project.
"For the government to spend such a grotesque amount of public money on any one person is shocking and grossly insensitive to the workers, the poor and the homeless," said Cosatu's Patrick Craven.
He said "those who are found to be behind this gross misuse of public funds must be held accountable, including any political office bearers who approved the use of these massive amounts of public money."
"The amounts that the minister now concedes were spent vindicate our decision to ask the Public Protector and the Auditor General to investigate them to check if each of them can be morally justified," said Craven.
Meanwhile, DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko, says she will use the Promotion of Access to Information Act to gain access to the Nkandla report.
She also called for a parliamentary debate on the report, saying its a slap in the face of accountability and transparency for the report to remain secret.
"This casts yet another shadow over this shameful saga and makes it clear that the Minister of Public Works, Thulas Nxesi, is engaged in a concerted campaign to protect President Zuma from accountability at all costs," said Mazibuko.
"President Zuma must do the right thing and intervene to ensure that his government tables the report in Parliament for proper scrutiny and debate."
ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga said in a statement on Tuesday that "Mazibuko's call for the report on the investigation of the allegations relating to the private residence of the President to be tabled before Parliament "for it to be fully scrutinised and debated" is misguided and defies common sense."
"It is reasonable and appropriate for a report of such confidential nature to be forwarded to the law enforcement agencies to investigate any possible acts of criminality, rather than be made the subject of a public political spectacle," he added.
Motshekga said "no country can lay bare the sensitive security details of its head of state or the security operations of the state for public "debate and scrutiny", as suggested by Mazibuko."
