Gauteng Province asked to probe all ELM tenders
ELM has asked the Gauteng Provincial Government to urgently investigate all tenders - including a controversial insurance tender - done or pending under the stewardship of its now-suspended CFO Andile Dyakala.
This also included a request to urgently investigate why massive funding to the embattled ELM in the form of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) was so under-utilised that possibly hundreds of millions of Rands had to be returned.
According to multiple political sources the request was recently made to COGTA (Cooperative Governance) MEC Lebogang Maile following the suspension of CFO Dyakala.
Dyakala faces multiple investigations not only on his personal conduct – including severe gender abuse of for er acting Executive Mayor Khetiwe Ntombela – but also governance severe neglect of duty issues.
Since being suspended, Dyakala has embarked on a smear campaign of especially ELM Municipal Manager Lucky Leseane, who was himself the victim of a fake suspension engineered by Dyakala for most of 2021.
But highly-placed political sources familiar with the situation said Dyakala was complaining about alleged maladministration that fell squarely into what he himself should have addressed in his roles as both CFO and acting Municipal Manager.
Dyakala was himself the acting Municipal Manager late last year in Leseane’s enforced absence and was thus responsible for not only tender approval and oversight, but also to ensure that massive grant funding from national Government was properly allocated and spent.
However, the MIG funding was in a massive blow to ELM cash flow with only 4% utilised and spent by Dyakala and thus lost to service delivery in Emfuleni.
Since Leseane’s suspension last year, the post of acting Municipal Manager was filled by a succession of juniors thus leaving Dyakala de facto in charge of all financial aspects and as the main advisor to acting Municipal Managers.
Organised business welcomed the request to MEC Maile to investigate Dyaka on new aspects, saying Dyakala should also be assessed for his role in destroying the BXCSA smart meter programme in 2019, leading to losses worth bilions in ELM revenue.
“Radical solutions should now be considered by the MEC to identify the damage over the years to governance and service delivery by CFO Dyakala and former acting Municipal Manager Oupa Nkoane. They have no consequence management applied to their destructive path,” said Klippies Kritzinger, President of the Golden Triangle Chamber of Commerce (GTCoC).
