Gibson turned to President Thabo Mbeki and said that he found it surprising that the President had not said anything about “crime in Parliament” and had failed to act as leader of the ANC.
“Surely the ANC considers that those among us who have stolen money from the people are not fit to be parliamentarians?” Gibson said, reminding the National Assembly that Parliament was still deliberating on what to do about the guilty MPs. “While people in high positions in public life get away with it, corruption will not be stopped. When this Parliament demonstrates that it sets high standards, when the political parties and especially the ANC show that they will not tolerate corrupt representatives, then the people of SA will believe that we are serious.”