The party says it should be unthinkable that anyone could benefit corruptly from this crisis by using connections to get contracts and charge rip-off prices.
The Democratic Alliance in Gauteng has called for the province’s department of health to explain how a company owned by the husband of President Cyril Ramaphosa‘s spokesperson, Khusela Diko, reportedly scored a multimillion-rand contract to supply Personal Protective Equipment for the Covid-19 pandemic.a report in the Sunday Independent
“It is also alleged that the department paid inflated prices, above the National Treasury’s regulated PPE price list published on April 15. He added: “Furthermore, it is alleged that RBP charged R58 per surgical mask compared to a regulated price of R12.48, and R85 per 500ml unit of Actigerm alcohol sanitiser, which is regulated at R46.37.”
“This may be the reason why the department’s Chief Financial Officer Kabelo Lehloenya resigned recently. We do not know if she was trying to stop the corruption or was perhaps implicated herself.
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