The DA has urged Finance Minister Tito Mboweni to issue a formal National Treasury instruction that would require provinces that have not published Covid19 procurement information to do so.
Cape Town – The DA has urged Finance Minister Tito Mboweni to issue a formal National Treasury instruction that would require provinces that have not published Covid-19 procurement information, to do so.
Mboweni made the call last week on provinces to publish the list of all companies awarded Covid-19 PPE contracts. "This was a serious misstep that has opened the way for major corruption under ’emergency procurement’ regulations. He said their proposed special inspector-general would have had powers to interdict and stop corruption in real time, and would have stopped a lot of the disgraceful theft that is now being exposed after the fact.
Committee chairperson Joe Maswanganyi had said the decision was taken in light of the wide-ranging corruption allegations involving provincial departments of health and some municipalities.
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