DEFIANT MPS MAY FACE CORRUPTION CHARGES

MBABANE – Members of Parliament (MP) elect who continually defy the former Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini’s directive not to attend ‘shady’ meetings may face corruption charges.

The defiant MP’s elect could be charged with contravening Section 30 of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 2006. The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Public Relations Officer Jabu Phakathi said the ACC had not yet received any correspondence as yet on MP’s elect who could have allegedly defied the former PM’s warning.

The Prevention of Corruption Act’s clause which might catch up with defiant MP’s elect: The Prevention of Corruption Act of 2006 under Section 30 where offences in respect of corrupt activities relating to politicians is listed as: “A person who, directly or indirectly- 

(a)    being a politician, demands or accepts or agrees or offers to accept any advantage from another person, whether for the benefit of that politician or for the benefit of any other person; or

(b)     gives or agrees or offers to give any advantage to a politician, whether for the benefit of that person or for the benefit of another person, in order for that politician or that person to act or to influence another so to act, in a manner,

(c)    that amounts to the

(i)    Illegal, dishonest, unauthorised, incomplete, biased; or

(ii)    misuse or selling of information or material acquired in the course of the exercise, carrying out or performance of any powers, duties or functions arising out of a constitutional, statutory, contractual or any other legal obligation

(d)    that amounts to the-

(i)    Abuse of position of authority

(ii)    A breach of trust, or

(iii)    The violation of legal duty or set of rules;

(e)    designed to achieve an unjustified result; or

(f)    that amounts to any unauthorised or improper inducement to do or not to do anything, commits an offence of corrupt activities relating to politicians.”

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