JOHANNESBURG - The Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) last week released a report indicating that the SA Police Service’s (SAPS) Crime Intelligence Unit’s secret service funds were indeed used to pay for the wall.

Mnisi argued that the Auditor- General, Terence Nombembe, had not ordered the minister to make any payment.

Mnisi was responding to a comment by the Democratic Alliance (DA) that it expected the minister “to do the right thing and immediately pay for the wall out of his exceedingly deep ministerial pocket”.

He lashed at the DA, saying it was seeking political attention, using Mthethwa’s name to score points.

“The minister was cleared against any wrongdoing by the AGSA, and if the DA is having sleepless nights as a result of this vindication, they must learn that no amount of politicking and grandstanding will score them political points they so desperately seem to be in need of,” Mnisi said.

DA MP and shadow minister of police Dianne Kohler-Barnard made the statement after the AGSA released its findings of a three- month probe into reports that R200 000 from the secret service funds had been used to pay for the security  wall around Mthethwa’s house and to buy the minister a Mercedes Benz ML.

– pulengm@citizen.co.za