Prasa execs do not want to face the music, former CEO Lucky Montana says
Former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana has weighed in on a news report that the man acting in his former position increased his own salary by 350%. "The group of Prasa executives behind the story want Collins Letsoalo to return to his old position at the Department of Transport so that they do not face the music for the transgressions they have committed‚" Montana posted on Twitter on Monday. This was after Letsoalo denied that he had irregularly increased his salary. He said that the R5.9m he was being paid — the salary applicable to Prasa’s group CEO — was confirmed by the Prasa board. But Sunday Times deputy editor S’thembiso Msomi has hit back at Montana and Letsoalo‚ saying the paper stood by its story. "If [Letsoalo] insists on that‚ he must give us proof that the board passed a resolution that he must be paid as a CEO and not an acting CEO." Letsoalo‚ who remains an employee of the Department of Transport‚ was seconded to Prasa by Transport Minister Dipu...
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