Disbanded Ngaka Modiri Molema District Council and suspended manager bites the dust Mahikeng – The constitutional court has dismissed the application by disbanded council of Ngaka Modiri Molema and the suspended municipal manager Mokgele Mojaki, for leave to appeal the North West High Court decision, to enforce Section 139 (1)(c) as invoked by the North West Provincial Executive Council. Ngaka Modiri Molema District councillors approached the highest court in the land after their bid to interdict the council dissolution and appointment of an administrator, was dismissed by the North West High Court in Mahikeng. MEC for Local Government and Human Settlement Collen Maine has welcomed the court’s decision. “The decision by the highest court in the land proves that our intervention at the district municipality has always been lawful as we have never lost any application brought against us. This gives the Administrator full powers to run the municipality and also afford us space to prepare for the by-election next Wednesday” said Maine. A week ago the suspended Municipal Manager Mokgele Mojaki’s application to have his suspension set aside was dismissed with cost by the Labour Court in Braamfontein – Johannesburg and the SAMWU in the municipality also lost application of an unlawful lockout against the municipality in the same court. The Administrator Kumaran Nair said “Now that we have dealt with court series that were filed against us now we can focus on providing services to our communities and implement all project envisaged to bring long lasting solution to water shortage in the district.” Under the tenure of Mokgele Mojaki and the disbanded council, the district municipality received successive disclaimer audit opinions with extensive qualifications under the Compliance and Predetermined Objectives components of the municipal audit. In addition the Auditor General has also extensively recorded repeat findings that will confirm that there were no remedial measures that were implemented. The audit reports show that the aggregate unauthorized, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure for 2011/12 and 2012/13 financial years amounted to approximately R1, 350 billion. Amongst others, the council also failed to act on alleged maladministration, fraud and corruption; to provide support to the local municipalities in terms of section 88 of the Municipal Structures Act and failure by district to provide communities with basic services in particular water.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:52:56 +0000
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