SCORPIO: EXCLUSIVE: Public Protector provisionally finds 'serious irregularities' in R255m Free State asbestos audit By Pieter-Louis Myburgh for Scorpio
A Public Protector investigation into a contract awarded to the Diamond Hill-Blackhead Consulting joint venture by the Free State department of human settlements in 2014 has identified “serious irregularities” in the procurement process.has learned that Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is currently finalising her work on the matter and that Section 7 notices have been issued to parties implicated in her provisional findings.
Kleynhans and the DA first reported the matter to the Public Protector in 2015, after the party learned that the FSHS intended splurging R255-million for the audit of just 300,000 low-cost houses in the province to determine if they had asbestos roofs. PP spokesperson Oupa Segalwe confirmed that the investigation was in its final stages, but he said the findings referred to by Kleynhans were “merely findings intends making if no evidence supporting the implicated parties’ side of the story is provided to her as part of the parties’ response”.We never indicate as to whom the notices are being served to avoid prejudicing people unfairly as this is still very much part of the investigation. Only implicated parties are served,” said Segalwe.
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