Breaking: EFF member arrested after disrupting Mabuza’s Mpumalanga speech

Security personnel have removed Economic Freedom Fighters members Collen Sedibe and Alfred Skhosana from the Mpumalanga legislature for attempting to disrupt the delivery of the state of the province address.

Sedibe, who is the EFF’s provincial leader, was arrested immediately after he was removed from the legislature. The charges are unknown.

Sedibe and Skhosana raised two matters immediately after Premier David Mabuza took to the stand.

Sedibe said that he felt unsafe because Safety, Security and Community Liaison MEC Pedro Ngomana was “an illegal Mozambican national” who did not have “a certificate of naturalisation”.

The EFF has been accusing Ngomana of having multiple identity documents and passports for a while. The party opened a case with the police in 2014, but nothing came of it.

“I can’t be in the midst of an illegal immigrant. Is there no Parliament in Mozambique?” Sedibe said.

Legislature speaker Thandi Shongwe said it was pointless for the EFF to raise the matter of Ngomana’s citizenship in the legislature.

“This matter is not part of these proceedings. You’ve been raising it for two years. You must approach the relevant authorities,” Shongwe said.

Skhosana said that police threatened Sedibe with arrest as he arrived at the legislature. He refused to leave when ordered to do so.

Shongwe called the security personnel to remove the EFF members but a scuffle ensued and EFF members threw water bottles at ANC politicians.

Mabuza delivered his speech after the EFF had left.

The legislature is still in session.

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