Repubblika announced and started a three-day long sit-in protest outside the Police headquarters in Floriana on Tuesday evening, demanding the police commissioner charge Konrad Mizzi in court.
This sit-in, 72-hour protest, is set to culminate on Friday 29 at 6.30pm with a protest outside of Castille.
The former special projects minister, today an independent MP, has so far failed to show up to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting on the Electrogas power station contract on four occasions.
The NGO said that it will no longer be ridiculed, whilst shouting "shame on you", "we are fed up", "you are all spinless and corrupt", "we want justice today" and "wake up Gafa" outside the police headquarters.
Noting that police commissioner Angelo Gafa is, according to them, failing to take on his responsibilities, Repubblika president Robert Aquilina said that they had given him enough chance and now "enough was enough" and they were moving from words to action.
They invited anyone who feels the same anger against the police commissioner and Prime Minister Robert Abela to join them whilst stating that the protest will end before Friday if either of them takes action against Mizzi.
Whoever does not take action against Konrad Mizzi deserves the same "Shame on you" title, said Aquilina before adding that the organisation will no longer stand for the "humiliation" of lack of action against the most corrupt contracts in Malta.
They continue to offer Mizzi the same impunity that former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar and former PM Joseph Muscat offered him, said Aquilina.
Aquilina said that the organisation wants to make it clear that they are not protesting against police officers doing their jobs, noting that some of those same officers had themselves approached Repubblika to express their concern over this lack of action against Mizzi, but against those occupying the highest echelons of the police force.
Aquilina added that commissioner Gafa has proved in the past as with the 2013 oil scandal that he can take immediate action against corruption, a case where he took the ex-Enemalta chairman Tancred Tabone to court within one month of the scandal being publicised.
Thus, the NGO is asking what Mizzi has on them all for him to still be allowed to go about freely with impunity, something they said he has been doing for six years since the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia publicised his secret Panama structures bank account connected to the Electrogas deal which in turn led to her death.
Aquilina said that in continuing to protect Mizzi, Angelo Gafa continues to protect former PM Muscat and the Labour Party.
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