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Pretoria - Arms procurement parastatal Armscor should have played the leading role in the 1999 multi-billion rand purchase of military equipment, the Seriti Commission of Inquiry heard on Thursday.
"I think the government had a much larger role in the acquisition process, possibly on the grounds that these were strategic acquisitions," arms deal critic and losing bidder Richard Young said in Pretoria.
"In my view, this was contrary to the letter and spirit of the relevant statutory foundations for Armscor. Instead of the final decisions on contracting being made by the Armscor board, strangely, decisions were being made by Cabinet. Then it comes back to Armscor to ratify decisions already made."
