Thank you. From the moment Jacob Zuma ascended the Presidency, the aspirations of the SSA were deliberately and cynically reformulated. No longer were the millions spent to protect this country focussed on national and international threats, instead they had but one single job: Protect Zuma and destroy those who threatened his Nkandla Firepoolery.
Any friend of Jacob Zuma's got a get out of jail free card, and indeed, this is where investigations into what we today call state
capture, went to die. For example, the criminal charges I laid on the 9 April, 2009, they were against Zuma's lawyer Michael Hulley, and the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Director-General, DG, for operations, one Arthur Fraser.
This was for allegedly being in possession of illegal, stolen recordings of intercepted telephone conversations and passing the tapes to Zuma's legal team, the notorious spy tapes. The matter was handed via Durban Central SAPS to the then NIA, and Jacob Zuma was promptly sworn in one month later. Here I stand a decade on, still awaiting the outcome of the investigation, any investigation.
Of course, the self-same Arthur Fraser was made the DG of the SSA in 2016, the President's keeper, so to speak, so that's hardly surprising. The Peter of the pan, as it was, flying under the ethical radar. He apparently ran a parallel intelligence system with a private server that dealt with intelligence reports before sharing them with SSA. Up to 800 of these reports never made it through his grid.
He stayed in that position for another eight full years even after his Principal Agent Network, PAN, was suspended. The billion plus I referred to, disappeared under Fraser's watch, spent for example, in
the interests of keeping us all safe in our beds at night, on 293 cars, mostly luxury BMWs and Mercedes-Benz, and R20 million was spent to warehouse them in Gauteng and the Western Cape.
We're talking fraud, theft, forgery, uttering and corruption, which are great qualifications if you're about to be transferred to Correctional Services. How that came about will remain as much a mystery as just exactly how much and how many billions have been looted from the Intelligence Slush Fund, a fund kept so secret honourable MPs are forced to swear they will stay silent about it and pretty much everything else.
A fund so secret the Auditor-General may not have details of it. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? But let's go back to the R19 million or was it R50 million, reports differ, in cash out of a safe at our Intelligence Headquarters, HQ. It may sound like a game of Cluedo, but I've been told that they know who took it. Heard of any arrest? Nothing.
Who is checking the books in terms of payments to sources? But of course, that's a secret too. Friends, family and lovers; come one come all. Richard Mdluli did it, you did it. That fact is detailed in the High Level Panel Report.