Nketoana local municipality is under the spotlight for approving the junior employee’s car allowance.
(The Post News)- The squabbles about who should or should not have a car allowance among the employees in the local municipality of Nketoana in the Free State continue. One of the high-ranked employees, Duduzile Tshabalala, who works in the finance department, is accused of having a municipal car allowance.
Tshabalala has been accused by one of the municipal employees, Mangaliso Hlongwane, who confessed the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Jabu Makubu, is the one who approved it regardless of the expenditure manager’s advice against the approval.
According to Hlongwane, this is wrong since Tshabalala is not in a post level that allows her to have a car allowance. He also describes this approval as a method of misusing public funds that will ultimately affect service delivery.
Hlongwane further described the post levels that qualify for the car allowance as one, two, and three, insisting Tshabalal’s level four is disqualified and wasting the municipal funds.
Speaking to The Post News this morning, the Municipal Manager (MM), Mokete Nhlapo said the municipality sees nothing wrong with the junior employee having a car allowance.
Nhlapo understands that at some point, some employees need transport allowance just like anyone else. He says not everyone will be happy about the decisions taken by the municipal management, but whoever is not satisfied can open a case. “Anyone has a right to open a case if they are not satisfied just like Mr Hlongwane did.”
Mmako Mophiring, provincial police spokesperson said the fraud case was opened and handed over to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations.
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