Hon Chair, our judiciary is the last check- in balance against abuse of the rule of law in this country. Judicial capture and the usurpation of the rule of law for alleged financial gain by any judicial officer, no less a chief magistrate, as is the case with Chief Magistrate Nair, must be taken in all seriousness and with the veracity that it deserves.
Our judiciary must be free, fair, accessible and most importantly, impartial. If judicial impartiality can be bought, then we no longer have the rule of law; we have anarchy. Bosasa is well known and is itself under a cloud of controversy in respect of illicit and criminal activity. Whilst on that topic, we must say the IFP is concerned by the continued slow investigation in this matter, of which allegations of corruption are bound, even against some members sitting in this very Chamber. Chairperson, accordingly, the IFF fully supports the provisional suspension of Chief Magistrate Nair from office, pending the outcome of investigation into his fitness to hold the office of magistrate. I thank you.