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Gauteng ANC to serve Masuku, Diko with charges this week over PPE tender
ANC provincial secretary Jacob Khawe told Eyewitness News that this would be done before the end of the week.
Masuku returned to work after having been cleared by the ANC’s own processes while her husband has lodged court processes against the SIU over a report it submitted which led to his axing.
Gauteng ANC deputy provincial chairperson, Panyaza Lesufi, said that while the provincial executive could not tell Premier David Makhura who to pick, it could urge him to do so quickly.
Provincial Treasurer, Parks Tau, said that the process would now follow rule 25 of the ANC constitution in dealing with the two.
The ANC, at a media briefing on Thursday, confirmed late-night suggestions that the two would be hauled before disciplinary processes over their alleged involvement in the personal protective equipment (PPE) saga.
The report was compiled by Darryl Furman & Associates, which instructed forensics organisations to carry out a diligent search for evidence of criminal offences
Presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko, Health MEC Bandile Masuku and his wife Joburg MMC Loyiso Masuku are implicated in irregular personal protective equipment (PPE) tenders in the province.
The PEC has been meeting since Saturday to consider, among other things, the report by the Integrity Commission relating to a multimillion-rand personal protective equipment (PPE) tender.
The provincial executive committee (PEC) is meeting this weekend to consider a report by the integrity commission relating to a multimillion-rand personal protective equipment (PPE) tender.
Eyewitness News has independently confirmed this, while the findings are expected to be released on Sunday by the African National Congress (ANC)’s provincial executive committee.
This includes expenditure by the Gauteng government, which has seen a number of questions raised over procurement, including its now suspended Health MEC Bandile Masuku.
On Sunday, Ramaphosa issued the open letter raising a number of issues and taking a hard line on corruption related to the provision of personal protective equipment.
Gauteng was using the open tender system prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. but because of the urgent need for personal protective equipment (PPE), the province used national government’s emergency procurement process, a process that Makhura said created loopholes for corruption.
Mboweni and Treasury officials appeared before Parliament’s finance committees on Wednesday.
Treasury said that government departments would no longer be allowed to choose suppliers and would have to resort to open tender processes in awarding contracts for PPE and COVID-19-related goods and services.
Masuku has taken leave pending a probe into the multimillion-rand deal to supply personal protective equipment to the Gauteng Health Department.
Masuku and her husband, Bandile Masuku, are accused of being instrumental in the unlawful awarding of a personal protective equipment tender in the Gauteng Health Department.
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku and his wife Loyiso, a City of Joburg official, are at the centre of just one of several high-level corruption probes recently launched into a tender for personal protective equipment.
The request relates to her alleged involvement in a multi-million rand tender for personal protective equipment.