The EFF statement on the SONA 2015 security threats

12 February 2015

The Economic Freedom Fighters have it on good authority that Parliament and the ANC Police have planned to manhandle and arrest EFF Members of Parliament for things they will say inside Parliament during the State of the Nation Address.

We are aware that during the SONA, this is what is going to happen:

1. The Speaker of Parliament will ask Members of Parliament to sit down for three times.

2. The Speaker will instruct the Searjent at Arms to come into the house and the Searjent at Arms will ask the member to leave the Chamber and will bow three times before they call in the police into the Chamber to remove the member.

3. The Police will then remove the Member and take them into a dungeon which will lead to Tuynhuis and during that process, we will not know what will happen to the member.

4. Each gate and entrance of Parliament will have 20 Police Officers, who will manhandle the Members of Parliament.

These are some of the Security details of what Parliament seeks to do on elected members of Parliament. This goes against the Constitutional provisions which forbid the police from arresting members of parliament for things they say in Parliament.

The EFF is aware that the ANC's approach is to physically suppress the EFF in Parliament and prevent its members from democratically participating in parliament.

The EFF and all its members are not intimidated by the security forces that seek to undermine Parliament. The EFF will ask questions in Parliament because Zuma has been avoiding accountability in Parliament. We will never be threatened by those who undermine institutions of democracy.

The demand and clarion call is simple, Zuma must pay back the money and be held accountable by the institutions of democracy.

Statement issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, February 12 2015

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