EKURHULENI executive mayor, Clr Mondli Gungubele, has congratulated staff and managers for achieving a clean audit for the second consecutive year.
“This is really good news for the people of Ekurhuleni. This accolade from the Auditor General is an indication that we are serving the people of this area well,” Gungubele said.
“We are proud that the City has achieved this feat twice in a row because it was always our biggest challenge to emulate the 2013/14 achievement. At least now we have proven that what we achieved in the 2013/14 financial year was no fluke and we shall continue working hard to ensure that clean audits become a norm in this institution.”
Gungubele credited the political leadership and the management of the City for this accomplishment.
“There was political will to achieve this and the management working together with the audit committee, risk committee, oversight structures and MPAC (Municipal Public Accounts Committee) made sure it happened,” he pointed out.
The Auditor General indicated that the City and five of its entities had received a clean audit outcome yet again. The East Rand Water Company is the only entity not to achieve a clean audit and management is working hard to address all the issues raised by the Auditor General.
A clean audit gives practical meaning to the constitutional rights of citizens to expect a clean, transparent, accountable local government by exposing financial practices of municipal management to scrutiny, oversight and possible sanction.
The Auditor General provides an independent audit of how municipalities manage public funds. If audits were not conducted and results published, the public would have no idea of what was going on with the management of municipal finances.
Ekurhuleni city manager, Khaya Ngema, said it was always difficult to raise the bar from the previous year and to guard against regressing.
“The management of Ekurhuleni has once again demonstrated that sound use of public resources is of paramount importance. The clean audit outcome is testament to the hard work and late nights of ensuring that we serve the people of this city prudently and efficiently,” Ngema said.
