CHARLES MOLELE
FORMER Gauteng health MEC Bandile Masuku has slammed a Special Investigating Unit report into Covid-19 tender corruption that precipitated his removal from office, saying in a court application its findings were invalid, ‘unlawful’ and ‘unconstitutional’.
His lawyer Mojalefa Motalane has confirmed in a statement that the former Health MEC has lodged a court application in the Pretoria High Court challenging the SIU findings.
He wants the SIU report to be set aside.
“The application is undoubtedly of significant public and legal interest and raises important constitutional and public administration issues and accountability of public representatives: the powers and functions of the SIU, the effect of its findings and remedial action,” said Masuku’s lawyers in a statement.
“The SIU reach untruthful and unsubstantiated conclusions which are based on illogical inferences, suppositions and conjecture. The lack of a factual and/or evidentiary foundation for the impugned findings heightens the injustice that our
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