Supra Mahumapelo blows his own horn in budget speech
The embattled North West premier, who is accused of corruption, says his office is ‘committed to maintaining high levels of ethics‚ efficiency and good governance’
Embattled North West premier Supra Mahumapelo delivered his budget speech on Tuesday morning blowing his own horn‚ saying his office had investigated cases of irregular expenditure and had implemented consequence management.Mahumapelo‚ who is facing revolt from his own people in the province and in the ANC‚ said his office had achieved a turnaround time on payment of suppliers. He has been accused of corruption and failing to provide proper services to communities in the North West.The Hawks recently raided his office looking for documents in its investigation related to a multi-million-rand IT contract with Nepo Data Dynamics. The company controversially received a R215m payment for its roll out of the province’s IT transformation programme.Mahumapelo said he was committed to improving the financial management challenges in his office and improve on the audit outcomes for the current financial year."The office of the premier is committed to [maintaining] high levels of ethics‚ effi...
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