De Lille on latest crime statistic- 'Parliament has failed the nation'
03-07-2007, 15H30 ID President Patricia de lille says the Government's latest crime statistics 'are disappointing
Issued by the ID Media Office
Steven Otter – 084 233 3811
‘While the ID recognises that statistics are important for
budgeting and planning, what is far more important is that we feel safe
in our homes, schools, churches, shopping centres, communities and
streets,’ says De Lille.
‘Instead, we do not feel safe anywhere in our country.’
De Lille reiterated her year-long call for a crime summit, ‘where
representatives of all South Africans from every sector of our society
unite against the criminal minority that holds us our country
hostage.
‘President Mbeki, in his State of the Nation Address in February
this year, listened to the ID call and instructed Parliament to convene
a summit to deal with crime, poverty and transformation,’ De Lille
says.
‘Now, almost five months later, the summit is not even on the
parliamentary agenda. Parliament has failed the nation.
‘The three arms of Government must take responsibility to deal
with the issue of crime for once and for all,’ says De Lille.
Released by Patricia de Lille – 084 777 2065
