The Emfuleni Local Municipality’s municipal manager, Lucky Leseane, is under fire for allegedly stalling criminal investigations against his senior officials responsible for the irregular expenditure of more than R670-million.
This is according to a letter by forensic company, Comperio Consulting, which was appointed in November 2018 to probe irregular expenditure through the illegal award of tenders to various companies in the Vaal.
According to Oosthuizen, contracts awarded to these companies were not concluded in line with the terms and conditions of the contracts concluded by the other organ of state, i.e. contract periods . She added: “Tenders were disqualified for not complying with the minimum requirements although found to be compliant and the scoring of the Bid Evaluation Committee was altered resulting in tenders been awarded to another company and not the company with the highest scoring points."
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