DA defence spokesman David Maynier said in a statement that this would assist in evaluating the way the country could have been prejudiced during the “dodgy arms deal”.
“Evaluation of these documents was the only way to gain insight into alleged ‘dodgy arms deals’ authorized by the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) — the government body that oversees SA’s arms trade.”
“The DA understands that Minister Jeff Radebe, chairman of the NCACC, together with officials from the Directorate of Conventional Arms Control, will now appear before Parliament’s defence and military veterans portfolio committee on September
Maynier called upon the Directorate of Conventional Arms Control to supply copies of any reports of investigations conducted by its inspectorate in the same period.
Evaluation
He said the documents would allow portfolio committee members to evaluate how criteria concerning internal repression, the violation of human rights and the escalation of regional conflicts were taken into account by the NCACC before authorizing the export of arms.
Maynier said the scrutiny committee was responsible for briefing the NCACC ahead of any proposed arms deal.
"The documents it provides the NCACC with in this regard are the basis on which the NCACC makes its decisions. Therefore they are crucial to understanding its reasoning and must be produced by the NCACC before the meeting with the portfolio committee… if we are to understand how it justified the dodgy deals it has undertaken," he said.
The DA would use the minister’s appearance at the September 2 meeting as an opportunity to "maintain the spotlight firmly on the dodgy arms deals and the crisis at the NCACC.
"We will [also] use this as an opportunity to probe how it was that the NCACC authorized military support equipment to be demonstrated and exhibited in
Source: AllAfrica.com