THE High Court in Pretoria has dismissed an application by former Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku challenging the Special Investigating Unit on personal protective equipment investigations outcome with costs, including the costs of two counsels.
The former Gauteng Health MEC approached the court wanting the preliminary findings by the SIU against him set aside.
Masuku has been at home after being suspended by the ANC and axed from the Gauteng cabinet, after an SIU report on a corruption scandal at the health department found that he had failed in his duty to conduct oversight of spending on personal protective equipment tenders.
The SIU last year in October found that he had failed to provide oversight, and upholding the constitution of South Africa along with regulations stipulated in the Public Finance Management Act.
The special investigating unit was probing irregular tender processes of Covid-19 PPE’s.
Those findings were used as a basis for his suspension by Premier David Makhura in October.
Masuku along with presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko and her spouse the late Thandisiswe have been embroiled in an R125 million scandal where it’s alleged that MEC Masuku influenced the awarding to Thandiswe’s company a Covid-19 PPE procurement contract for the Gauteng health department.
- Inside Politics
