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Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality wants people to account for tender irregularities

11 September 2019, 7:06 PM  |
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The Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality aims to recover lost money.

The Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality aims to recover lost money.

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The Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality aims to recover lost money.

The Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality council in Limpopo has decided to deal with ghosts from the past. A treasury report has recommended the prosecution of some officials who presided over awarding of tenders before the new administration took over in 2016.

Those implicated include former municipal manager Oupa Sebola. They are accused of contravening the Municipal Finance Management Act regarding tenders.

There has been a change of guard after the August 2016 local government elections in the municipality.

A Democratic Alliance (DA) -led coalition took over from the African National Congress and it has resolved to go after those implicated by the Treasury report put together by an independent auditing company. It revealed alleged tender irregularities amounting to more than R80 million.

“The report is asking that we open a criminal case against Mr OP Sebola that is the former municipal manager that we inherited when the municipality was amalgamated. He used to be the manager of former Mookgopong municipality. It is important to note that in the first meeting we had, we actually decided we were not taking Mr Sebola as an accounting officer and we had the cooperation of the EFF and the FF-Plus and we voted out Mr Sebola,” says Mayor Marlene van Staden.

DA provincial leader Jacque Smalle says people must account.

“There were clear attempts for these reports not to see the light of the day and one can only make a conclusion about the attempts but we will drive the holding of the people to account and for the returning of the lost funds back to the institution,” says Smalle.

The ANC has denied any involvement in the reported irregularities, ANC Waterburg region spokesperson Matome Moremi-Taueatsoala says the ANC cannot take the blame.

“ The Fundudzi forensic report, as we speak now, their mandate was between 2017 and 2018 when they saw suspicious transactions going on in that municipality around December 2017 and the ANC led from 2011 to 2016. In 2017 December you still want to apportion the blame on the ANC, on anything that is going on. They failed to conduct their own oversight as the DA-led coalition,”

The debt-ridden municipality hopes to recover 80% of the money lost.

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