A municipality manager has been ordered to personally repay R4.6m lost on paying a water trucking company that had submitted questionable invoices for delivering water.
This comes after auditor-general AG Tsakane Maluleke slapped the Ngaka Modiri Molema municipal manager Allan Olehile Losaba with her first certificate of debt CoD. The action follows repeated warnings by the AG for Losaba to fix the irregular expenditure which was identified during auditing of the water trucking invoices belonging to one company.
During the AGSAs 2018/19 audit cycle, the audit team selected a sample of daily tankering schedules completed by the service provider and compared them to the job cards completed. It was noted that the service provider overclaimed on kilometres and hours for water tankering services, resulting in a financial loss for the 2018/19 financial year, said Maluleke through a statement.