Johnathan Paoli
THE City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Council has appointed Pule Seleke as the head of the Special and Independent Investigation Committee, following allegations of maladministration and corruption in the city’s Group Forensic and Investigation Services (GFIS) department
The council met on Sunday to consider the recent allegations and Council Speaker Margaret Arnolds said the chairperson of the committee – comprising various legal practitioners – would investigate allegations of rogue, clandestine and unlawful conduct by the city’s anti-fraud and corruption department, the GFIS.
“I trust the work of the committee will begin in earnest following various delays which were caused by legal briefs that were not accepted and not executed properly,” Arnolds said.
Several senior officials from the department were suspended in March last year for investigations following allegations of unlawful conduct.
The report promoted the dissolution of the unit’s board by the council and the transfer of the department’s
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