Pressure mounted on eThekwiniM’s Mayor MxolisiKaunda to crack the whip after the city’s bloated Covid_19 spend of more than R400-million over a four-month period was revealed this week.
Durban - Pressure mounted on eThekwini Municipality’s Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda to crack the whip after the city’s bloated Covid-19 spend of more than R400-million over a four-month period was revealed this week.
He got the ball rolling by requesting an urgent internal audit on funds spent in the city’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic which supply chain management released during a virtual meeting of the executive committee on Tuesday. Personal protective equipment , including sanitisers and masks, and hygiene services cost the municipality R75825832.Providing marquees, shower facilities, toilets, blankets, etc, for the homeless cost R66856286 with R8877095 going towards the distribution of hygiene products in informal settlements, hostels and transit camps.
One service provider charged the city R2.5m to supply 10 000 surgical masks, at a unit price of R25, yet Treasury’s standard for the item was R10.22.
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