Former minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Zizi Kodwa said his corruption case was meant to “eliminate and publicly humiliate” him. The case was brought against the two by the National Prosecution Authority (NPA). Kodwa and his co-accused EOH Group senior executive Jehan Mackay made their final appearance at Commercial Crime Court, sitting in Palm Ridge on Friday where the State announced the Director of Public Prosecutions’ decision to withdraw corruption charges against the duo.
State prosecutor Neville Mogagabe said the decision to drop charges was made by the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Advocate Andrew Chauke. Watch Zizi Kodwa speaking about the corruption charges being dropped Emotional Kodwa An emotional Kodwa told 702 , the matter deeply affected him and his family. “From day one we said, ‘We are ready for this trial’.
You can imagine what this case has done. There were two main objectives — the one I will call ‘elimination’ — if you look at the timing of when everything happened and started. “The other objective was that of public humiliation and you can imagine what it has done to me and the family and everybody close to me,” Kodwa said.
ALSO READ: Corruption charges against Zizi Kodwa withdrawn [VIDEO] ‘Stay strong’ Kodwa added that the alleged crime occurred in 2015 when he was not a minister, not in government and had no influence at the time and was just a spokesperson. “The same tender they are talking about got.
