ANC's Carrim: We're not going to buckle on FIC Bill over Zuma
6 December 2016
Cape Town - Yunus Carrim, ANC MP and chairperson of the standing committee on finance, took a tough stance against the fact that the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) Bill has been sent back to Parliament for "constitutional reasons".
"Parliament is not going to tremble and buckle just because the president's lawyers said it's unconstitutional. If the presidency's lawyers are wrong, they're wrong," Carrim said.
His comments came after President Jacob Zuma on November 30 had referred the bill back to Parliament, because of reservations about its constitutionality.
The Democratic Alliance's David Maynier said in his speech that Parliament's finance committee applied its mind to similar provisions contained in this FIC Bill, and at the last minute agreed to amend a clause in the Twin Peaks Bill to narrow the scope and clarify the purpose of warrantless searches.