MK vets will guard Nkandla to ‘give protection to president Zuma’, says Carl Niehaus

A “platoon” of militia veterans will abet a “fixed presence” out of doors extinct president Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home to “give protection to him”.

This is in accordance to uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Affiliation (MKMVA) spokesperson Carl Niehaus, speaking to TimesLIVE after a marathon meeting between the affiliation and the extinct president on Thursday.

Niehaus stated the meeting, which lasted extra than seven hours, “went very successfully”. He stated there turned into an in-depth discussion on the “most up-to-date bid in SA”, they assuredly spoke “intimately” about Zuma’s defiance of a Constitutional Court characterize compelling him to appear at the bid select commission.

“In the meeting, he reiterated that he no doubt will not chase to the commission,” stated Niehaus.

It turned into a decision, he stated, the MKMVA “fully supported”.

Niehaus added that the militia vets maintain been “essentially antagonistic to any warrant of arrest and for him to be arrested”.

“We’ll carry out every thing within our methodology and give protection to him, and stop him from being arrested. A platoon of MKMVA troopers maintain been at Nkandla once we arrived they assuredly shaped a guard of honour. The intention is for them to discontinue there, and from time-to-time to trade platoons. However there will be a fixed presence to give protection to president Zuma,” stated Niehaus.

The MKMVA spokesperson confirmed that they snubbed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s bid of the nation address, although it began at the time that they maintain been soundless at the Nkandla home.

He stated the meeting “wasn’t concluded” when Sona began at 7pm.

“We didn’t watch it. We endured with our discussions,” he stated, together with that these discussions also lined the bid of BEE in SA, that many murky companies suffered and that murky executives maintain been “under attack and maintain been being undermined”.

Niehaus stated that Zuma turned into “in very precise spirits”.

“He visibly loved the meeting. There turned into mighty laughter and bantering in between discussions. I own he turned into cosy to gaze aged comrades of the MK and turned into cosy with the strengthen that the MKMVA gave him,” stated Niehaus.

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