The Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu has vowed to crack the whip on rogue municipal officials for looting municipal funds.
Johannesburg - The Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu has vowed to crack the whip on rogue municipal officials including the big metropolitan councils for looting municipal funds and enrich themselves while leaving towns impoverished.
“I have a team of auditors and accountants who have the ability to identify the risks. We do not need whistleblowers. We are doing to identify the material irregularities and act on them. Accounting officers such as municipal managers will be summoned to a special committee to account for the irregularities before we could report them to other bodies for further investigations and possible prosecution,” Makwetu vowed.
He visibly appeared irritated the lowest number of municipalities in the country - 18 of them which received clean audit outcomes. The Western Cape had the highest number 12 of them. In Gauteng it was the usual Midvaal Local Municipality Municipality. Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape.
He said the amount of R25bn of irregular expenditure could even be higher saying “46% of the municipalities were either qualified on the incomplete disclosure of irregular expenditure or disclosed in the financial statements that they did not know the full extent of irregular expenditure,” he said.
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