EFF calls for full audit into eThekwini payroll
The Economic Freedom Fighters in KZN is demanding a full audit to establish the names and status of those on the eThekwini Municipality's payroll.
It follows revelations that ANC councillor Muziminu Ngiba has been getting a full salary for the past 11 months whilst sitting in jail.
Ngiba was arrested in May last year for the alleged murder of his predecessor, Siyabonga Mkhize in the run-up to the 2021 elections.
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"eThekwini Municipality pays over R1 billion rand in salaries and we have raised this as concerns before that there are a lot of ghost employees within the municipality and there are a lot of people who are occupying key and strategic positions - who don't have the relevant qualifications and they are earning money that they should not be earning. Cogta must come in and do an investigation," says EFF's regional spokesperson, Mazwi Blose.
Blose says the party believes that this is not a coincidence or oversight but rather an intentional act by the ANC.
"The rules within any municipality or any work environment especially in the city of eThekwini, is clear that if you are not at work for a councillor and if you do not come for three council meetings, you seize to be a councillor.
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"So councillor Ngiba should have been a councillor for the first three months when he did appear at work."
