510% Year-On-Year Increase Of Unauthorised Expenditure In Richmond Municipality

Riyaz Patel

Parliament’s select committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has recommended the National Council of Provinces to urgently intervene to “stabilize” the Amahlathi And Richmond Municipalities.

The parliamentary pronouncements came as Gauteng Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile said a committee has been set up to investigate allegations of fraud, maladministration, and corruption in Gauteng municipalities.

The parliamentary COGTA committee members visited the Amahlathi And Richmond Municipalities last week and said “much-needed stability” is needed amid “declining service delivery levels.”

In Richmond, it emerged that “ballooning unauthorised, irregular and wasteful expenditure had swelled by 510 percent year-on-year,” it said, adding that “deteriorating financial management has led to creditors not being paid.”

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The COGTA committee added that it was concerned that the instability in both municipalities has “impaired its abilities spend