O’Sullivan walks out of parliamentary ad hoc committee during testimony

Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan walked out of parliament’s ad hoc committee while still testifying on Thursday. The walkout took place after he was asked to give his comment regarding an international crime syndicate. After answering the question, O’Sullivan walked out, saying he had gone to parliament of his own free will.

However, MK Party MP David Skosana shouted out, saying O’Sullivan could not just leave. He said O’Sullivan was doing the same thing former national director of public prosecutionShamila Batohidid in another forum. EFF leader Julius Malema also said O’Sullivan could not just leave without being released by the chairperson of the committee, Soviet Lekganyane, saying O’Sullivan had violated the rules of parliament.

It is true that our witness has walked out of the proceedings. He [O’Sullivan] denied us an opportunity to conclude the engagement that we have had with him in a ceremonial and cordial way Lekganyane said they would get advice from the parliamentary legal team on the way forward following O’Sullivan’s walk out. He [O’Sullivan] denied us an opportunity to conclude the engagement that we have had with him in a ceremonial and cordial way,” he said.

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Earlier, there was a heated exchange between O’Sullivan and Skosana over repeated allegations that O’Sullivan was a spy. “If you call me a spy one more time, I am going to stop answering your questions,” O’Sullivan told Skosana. According to O’Sullivan, Skosana had called him a spy at least 10 times.

In a fiery exchange, Skosana repeatedly called O’Sullivan a spy and even called out a number, asking if it was O’Sullivan’s UK army number. O’Sullivan said he could not remember it.

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