Chairperson, on 7 June 2006, during the President's Budget Vote, I raised the ACDP's concern that more than two weeks after a six-year-old girl was raped and strangled to death, the police official who had to investigate the case had neither phoned nor visited the bereaved family.
The family does not know if or when the rapist and murderer will appear in court. They fear that if this case does go to court, it will be thrown out for insufficient evidence, resulting in their daughter becoming another statistic. Although the ACDP will support this Budget Vote to encourage the loyal, committed and hard-working policemen and women, I nevertheless want to ask the Minister that this case of rape and murder of six-year-old Kedibone receives his personal attention, and that he allocates a capable and caring police official to ensure that the evil man who committed these very serious crimes be convicted in a court of law. I thank you.