you speaker the acdp welcomes the constitutional court judgment in the glenister matter that found that part of the national legislation that disbanded the scorpions and created the hawks was constitutionally invalid in that the hawks are not sufficiently independent and are vulnerable to political interference the acdp was part of the parliamentary battle to retain the scorpions as it was in our view a very effective independent anticorruption unit with a ninety four percent success rate in our view it was only disbanded because it was so successful in investigating and prosecuting people with high political connections at the time we were also shocked that members of parliament mps who were being investigated by the scorpions were allowed to vote on the disbandment of the very unit that was investigating them this we said was a very clear of conflict of interest the acdp will contribute constructively to ensure that parliament