DA opens R7.6 billion SIU investigation
28 November 2016
The DA has today opened an investigation with the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), into the R7,6 billion that the Limpopo Government has wasted or misspent in just 36 months.
Today I handed over a 1000 page dossier to the Special Investigative Unit for various statutory contraventions including possible fraudulent tenders. The SIU have agreed to begin a preliminary investigation, upon which they will report to the President.
This comes after the Limpopo Government has failed for the past three years to investigate and take action arising out of the R7.6 billion in irregular, unauthorised and fruitless & wasteful expenditure found against it by the Auditor –General over the last three financial years. The Limpopo Government has simply sat on its hands while billions of public money has disappeared down the drain.
In the SIU complaint I detail how the Limpopo government has contravened financial regulations and failed to apply or enforce consequence management at the Standing Committee for Public Accounts (SCOPA) with regards to the R7,6 billion. For failing to properly crack down internally on this gross misspending, the Limpopo Government must be taken to task.