The Johannesburg Property Company (JPC), which belongs to the Metro, has appointed a firm of attorneys to collate and analyse evidence for possible disciplinary action against its top executives that the Special Investigating Unit report has implicated in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) fraud.
The SIU found irregularities in the awarding of contracts to four companies appointed to render emergency deep cleaning and sanitising services at the Johannesburg Metro Centre and taxi ranks last year.
In May this year, the company’s board resolved to suspend the JPC CEO. The suspension lapsed after three months, and the CEO returned to work two weeks ago.
The irregular procurement is said to have cost the City of Johannesburg over R18-million in fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
“This time the board is sitting, they are meeting legal who will give them legal advice and who will formulate the charges. And those charges are being formulated as I am talking to you right now and if it comes to a push the charges will be served to the two officials,” says Member of the Johannesburg Economic Development Mayoral Committee Tom Mofokeng.
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