R1,8 million in outstanding municipal bills owed by senior eThekwini employees, city reveals
eThekwini says around 3, 000 staff members have outstanding municipal bills.
22 million rand from a total of almost 2-billion is owed by employees.
Details of the unpaid utility bills have been made public in an exco budget statement.
The municipality's Krish Kumar says they were shocked to see that some 1.8 million rand is owed by municipal executives and senior management members.
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Kumar says, "We treat our own staff as well as councillors the same way we treat any member of the public and we do deduct a maximum of 25%."
"Any councillor in arrear must report to the speaker and the speaker, in turn, go to the ethics committee and if we need to further investigate the matter, they are appropriately dealt with," he adds.
He says they do record it in their financial statement, "So I think all in all the municipality is dealing with it and that's the official line."
