JRA acts against top management following Carte Blanche exposé
JOHANNESBURG – Top management within the Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) has been implicated after the board of the agency decided to adopt a series of forensic investigations.
The current managing director of the JRA is among the top management that has been suspended. Disciplinary proceedings have been accepted and the implicated individuals have also been suspended.
“The investigations were initiated following an expose by Carte Blanche in the first half of 2018. The City appointed Nexus, an external independent forensic firm, to handle the investigation,” read the statement issued by the office of the Executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba.
Mashaba said that despite anticipating the investigations being concluded swiftly, the investigation was only finalised in February 2019 due to the voluminous nature of the investigation, compounded by the dated matters under investigation. These cases relate to appointments inherited by the multi-party government.
“The reports found that senior management within JRA, including the current MD of the entity, who was the CFO at the time of the events under investigation, had flouted provisions of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA),” said Mashaba.
