Makhubele has authorised an external legal opinion and preliminary investigation into former executives of the council, who she said sanctioned bogus investigations into councillors by the Group Forensics and Investigation Services. | IamAlexSweet
City of Johannesburg speaker
Last week, the powers of the GFIS, the City's fraud and corruption buster, were given to city manager Floyd Brink in a The report said the"investigations conducted by the GFIS were neither compliant with the local government disciplinary regulations for senior managers, nor compliant with the approved GFIS delegations of authority". has declared all probes conducted by the GFIS into managers and councillors, unlawful, null, and void.
She called the GFIS investigations"rogue, clandestine, irregular and unlawful" and said the previous administration sanctioned them to deal with political opponents and or victimise senior officials. The GFIS commissioned law firm ENSafrica to investigate the matter, and its report found Brink did not act when he discovered the multimillion-rand transaction had been pushed through without following due process.Last week, the DA approached the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to reverse this decision.DA Johannesburg caucus leader Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku said the speaker had overreached her mandate and questioned where Makhubele got her advice.
"They are giving the city manager unlimited powers over the matters which even involve him where he has to select who is going to investigate [him] - we know where this is going."
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