Msunduzi municipal manager Mxolisi Nkosi was suspended on Friday following allegations of corruption
According to a report by the
City Press Nkosi allegedly used proceeds from a nearly R300 million infrastructure upgrade to line his pockets. The decision was taken at a full council meeting after a notice of intention to suspend was served on Nkosi, a former political adviser to KwaZulu-Natal Economic Development MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu. According to
City Press after the failed 2013 project, the city got back only about R2 million of the more than R290 million it had given to the Independent Development Trust for the infrastructure upgrade. The trust pulled out of the project and the city has taken it over. Other issues contributing to the suspension are understood to include the city’s parking meter contract. City spokesperson Nqobile Madonda confirmed on Friday that Nkosi, who was appointed in 2011, had been suspended.
Madonda told City Press that allegations of impropriety in the failed upgrade process were among the reasons for Nkosi’s suspension.
Nkosi shocked by allegations
In a speech to the full council, which the
Daily News has had sight of, Nkosi praised his team for driving the city to its first clean audit in years, and other achievements, which is why he said he was “deeply hurt and remains in absolute shock” concerning the allegations made against him. He said the conduct of last week’s meeting in which he was named as being under investigation, had caused “harm of unimaginable proportions” to himself and his family,
IOL reports. He said the council should not tolerate fraud and corruption, but his fundamental rights had been violated. Nkosi named another high-ranking official within the municipality as being the source of the financial misconduct, and said he hoped the investigation by Cogta would reveal the truth. –
City Press, IOL
