Decision on G4S contract to be announced this week — Lamola: Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola will announce this week whether the contract the correctional services department entered into with security company G4S will be…
“We also have to assess our own capacity to take it over if we cancel, because there are more than 500 employees, more than 2,900 inmates, there are systems and facilities that must be run, so if you just wake up and say you are cancelling the contract, you must have the capacity to take over,” he said.
“We will announce before the end of this week that this is the decision with regards to the cancellation and this is our assessment of our own capacity to take over, if indeed we decide to cancel.” Asked whether the department was investigating its own staff who may have played a role in the escape, Lamola said: “Whoever was helping him to do whatever was alleged and what we found in terms of our own investigations, it has been mostly G4S officials who are running and operating the facility and you would have seen some of them being arrested.
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