Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane says he will ask Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to investigate who authorised the use of state funds to enable Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to flee arrest in South Africa last week.
Maimane says it cannot be right that domestic and international laws are flouted to protect an alleged war criminal and human rights violator while the government of President Zuma remains silent and avoids answering pertinent questions.
He added that DA MPs would also put these questions to International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane when she appears before a parliamentary portfolio committee tomorrow, ahead of a debate in the National Assembly on the matter.
Ministers in the security cluster reportedly drew up a plan some days before Bashir arrived in the country for the African Union summit last weekend, to give him safe passage in and out of South Africa, in defiance of two open warrants for his arrest issued by the International Criminal Court.
He is wanted for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in the Darfur conflict.
