SIU clamps down eThekwini PPE corruption
The Special Investigating Unit's been sharing details about its clampdown on service providers that have been overcharging eThekwini Municipality for the supply of PPEs.
Spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago says some have been selling non-accredited medical supplies.
The SIU's asked one local service provider to pay back over R135 000 after the company inflated its prices for a municipal contract to cater for the homeless between March and July last year.
Kganyago says their report into irregular PPE contracts was presented to SCOPA yesterday.
"There were about 91 contracts that we are looking at to the value of R32 million that we finalised.
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“What we found is that 82 of the contracts were awarded within the national treasury which means nothing was wrong with them.
“Of the remaining, number one trying to get deployment of debt to the value of 135 000 and then the other service providers were then researched because they were not registered with saphra to provide medical supplies to the municipality.”
