Juju says in a statement the entire Gupta family should be charged with treason for using Waterkloof Air Force Base as if it’s their private landing strip. National security was compromised by the act.
“We call on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to charge the Gupta family with high treason for initiating and pushing through efforts that led to the usage of our military airbase despite the disapproval by the minister of defence… If the NPA is not in the pockets of the Guptas like many are, it will proceed to lay charges of treason against the Gupta family for undermining and threatening national security.”
The Guptas landed a chartered jet at the air base with about 270 people on board. They were all guests invited to the wedding of Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia and on their way to Sun City to misbehave and act racist like a bunch of hooligans. One is even accused of sexually harassing a masseuse.
While the SA government said it would investigate the matter (the landing of the jet, not the feeling up of the masseuse), nobody is sure if this will actually happen, although SA president Jacob Zuma said he supports the investigation. Zuma himself, a big buddy of the Guptas, was invited to the wedding but cancelled his plans to attend at last minute following the outcry about the landing of the aircraft by the wealthy family.
Juju said: “To suggest that Zuma is not aware or was not complicit in the granting of the permission to his friends to use the airbase is just plain foolishness.”
Many people, including Juju feels the Guptas, who own Sahara Computers and the New Age Newspaper, controlled the government – and for that matter the African National Congress.
“It is not a fallacy that the Gupta family has tremendous control over the ANC and government and has had influence and knowledge of key decisions even before the most senior of ANC leaders are aware,” claims Juju.