Everson Luhanga
Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, has assured the widow of Mthokozisi Ntumba that his party will hire a team of lawyers to help her sue the state.
Ntumba was shot and killed by the police in Braamfontein, Johannesburg on Wednesday 10 March.
A clear video footage shows police coming out on an Inyala and shooting Ntumba who had just stepped out of a local clinic.
Malema who was accompanied by his secretary-general Marshall Dlamini and the national spokesperson Vuyani Pambo said the party would also help the family bury Ntumba.
“We will make sure the post-mortem is conducted properly and we are going to make sure the government pays for their senseless killing.
“He might die like a dog in the streets, but we will give him a dignified funeral.”
Juju, as he is affectionately known, lambasted police minister Bheki Cele saying his department protects whites and kills black people.
“He is a minister whose department killed Mthokozisi and the president who appointed him killed the people in Marikana.
“He is an incompetent minister who doesn’t even know who is the head of the crime intelligent in his own department. With the death of Mthokokozisi, Cele must have been fired,” said Juju.
Juju questioned why no police have been arrested since the incident happened on 10 March.
Malema said the EFF will be taking an application to the constitutional court to force police to use other crowd control measures instead of guns.
“Public policing should not involve guns. Rubber bullets or not, there should be a way of controlling the public,” said Malema.
A family spokesperson has told Scrolla.Africa that Mthokozisi was healthy and went for a normal doctor checkup when he was shot at.
It is unclear until now whether the police used rubber bullets or live ammunition.
Picture source: @EFFSSOUTHAFRICA
