An Eastern Cape municipal manager appeared in court on Friday in connection with R18m in unaccounted expenditure at the King Sabata Dalindyebo local municipality.
Ngamela Phakade, 50, appeared in the Mthatha serious commercial crime court on Friday and was released on R20,000 bail. He will appear in court again on November 18.
According to police, during the 2011 financial year, the Mnquma municipality planned, funded and managed road projects. The infrastructure directorate initiated a tender process for the construction and revitalisation of Butterworth township roads, with the contract awarded to the Siva Pillay joint venture.
The municipality budgeted for R18m, but under the watch of Phakade, the accounting officer, expenditure drastically increased to R36m, with an actual loss of R18m. “In executing the aforementioned tender, the municipality had to confine themselves within the legislative framework of the 2001 Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act.
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