CAPE TOWN - Parliament's SAPS ad hoc committee chairperson, Soviet Lekganyane, has defended the committee's procedural work.
It comes as the EFF was accused of blocking the appearance of Deputy Crime Intelligence Head, Feroz Khan, a claim the party has denied.
MPs met to discuss the draft preliminary report into political interference in police work.
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During this time, Lekganyane set the record straight, saying all committee members had a say in the witness list.
He also rejected claims of bribery or inducement to protect witnesses.
"There is no other decision that has been taken in our meeting that we were induced, under duress, or that we would have been bribed to arrive at such a decision,” he said.
Lekganyane explained that at the start of the committee's work, members agreed to postpone proceedings to allow KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to be the first witness to appear before the committee.
Only after hearing Mkhwanazi's testimony would the committee determine the list of witnesses that would appear, he said.
"The committee emphasised that it had the sole authority to decide on who was going to appear before it.
"Evidence leaders were also given an opportunity to propose a list of witnesses they thought could appear before the committee, but without the power to decide who must appear before the committee, he said."
Additionally, Lekganyane said members of the committee were also at one stage given an opportunity to make their own submissions about who must appear before it.
"We are going to stand by those decisions, because they are our decisions," Lekganyane reiterated.