POLITICAL NEWS - Following alleged evidence that officials in a Limpopo municipality used their taxpayer-funded petrol cards to pay for petrol for their private vehicles, the DA has asked for all of them to be suspended.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Mogalakwena has written to the Limpopo MEC for cooperative governance, Jerry Ndou, to immediately suspend Mogalakwena municipality officials that were allegedly involved in an irregular fuel transaction scandal amounting to more than R2.9 million during November 2017 to February 2018.
“The DA is in the possession of the report that confirms that the municipality has indeed suffered a serious financial loss as a results of these fraudulent transactions by municipal officials,” said Mogalakwena councillor for the DA Korny Dekker.
“According to this report, the matter was brought to the attention of the municipal manager to establish urgent investigations into the transactions, which involve technical department and community service department vehicles to the tune of R1.95 million and R963 289, respectively.
He alleged that none of the registration numbers on the merchant slips or garage slips belonged to the municipality, and all the transactions exceeded the fuel cards’ allocated capacity.
“The DA can confirm that investigations were conducted and a criminal case was opened by the municipality at Mahwelereng Police Station (CAS 120/05/2018).”
The case was supposedly taken over by the Hawks for further investigation, but no arrests had, however, been made to date.
