The FF Plus welcomes the decision by the Gauteng MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Lebogang Maile, to take action against councillors of the Sedibeng District Municipality (under which the Local Municipalities of Emfuleni, Lesedi and Midvaal fall) who were in favour of the exorbitant salary adjustment of the Municipality's former municipal manager, the late Stanley Khanyile.
Khanyile received a salary of R1,8 million per annum even though the position was advertised with a salary of R1,2 million. Khanyile received the inflated salary from 2018 until he passed away in October this year.
It is alarming that the exorbitant salary was never brought to the attention of the relevant oversight committees of the Gauteng Legislature so that the matter could be addressed.
The FF Plus demands that the councillors of Sedibeng who are implicated in irregularities and unauthorised expenditure during Khanyile's term as municipal manager by the COGTA report are held accountable and must pay back the money to the Municipality.
Councillors are elected by the community to serve the people in municipal councils and must, therefore, be held accountable at all times.
It is unfair to expect taxpayers to pay for officials and councillors' misappropriation and corruption and so the FF Plus will not hesitate to expose such irregularities.
