Johnathan Paoli
Gauteng provincial ANC has called on the speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature to investigate EFF MPL Moshe Koma for collecting a salary although he allegedly missed legislature meetings and sittings.
According to the ANC Gauteng provincial secretary, Thembinkosi Nciza, Koma has since 2015 allegedly collected a monthly salary without attending any of the scheduled meetings of the legislature, neither performing most of the critical duties expected to be performed by MPLs, i.e. conducting oversight and constituency work and said that in the past 9 years, he has attended less than 10 oversight committee meetings and Legislature House Meetings.
Nciza called on the speaker to begin a process to recover all the monies that the Provincial Secretary of the EFF has earned and for the law to take its course in recovering over ‘10 million that has been stolen from the people of Gauteng by the EFF Ghost member of the legislature and Provincial Secretary of the EFF’.
Nciza said attendance to Portfolio Committee meetings and related work remained an essential responsibility of all MPLs and that it was through such platforms whereby critical matters pertaining to governance enjoyed discussions and views from all MPLs in their political diversity.
In addition, he said that these meetings are vested with powers to take decisions that ultimately influences the posture to be taken by the government in meeting the aspirations of South Africans.
“Any MPL that willingly absconds such meetings doesn’t possess in them an appetite to serve our people, let alone resolving a pool of predicaments contributing to their daily struggles,” Nciza said.
Earlier this year, Koma made headlines after an illegal raid and search of his house by SAPS in the early hours of the morning, following false accusations of gun-smuggling.
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