The Auditor-General has revealed in its latest report that Nelson Mandela Bay is the worst financial offender in South Africa, with over R1.77 billion lost to wasteful, fruitless and irregular expenditure under the ANC.
This enormous waste of R1,77 billion is a devastating blow to Danny Boy’s mismanagement and the disabilities of his finance buddy, Rory Riordan. For the 5th year in a row, NMB has received a qualified audit.
Having failed to pass the Metro’s budget on Monday due to legislative irregularities, Jordaan’s administration is now forced to draft a new budget before council is placed under administration on 30 June 2016.
As news broke of this poor Metro’s multi-billion rand wastage and financial turmoil and in the face of the financial meltdown of the NMB, nothing could keep Danny Boy from attending the PSL awards in Johannesburg on Monday evening, where he gleefully held soccer balls and smiled like a Zuma puppet for cameras.
The DA says in a statement they are surprised by Jordaan’s actions. “A dedicated mayor whose commitment to this Metro was unmovable, would have been at City Hall working on solving this municipality’s financial disaster. Instead, Mayor Jordaan once again chose soccer and camera flashes over the people of the Bay.”
With an already long list of broken promises, the current ANC administration has all but imploded with the recent delivery of a fake metro police service as reported by this website, a criminal appointment to the Head of Safety and Security, no-shows at important debates, no eradication of bucket toilets, no weekly refuse collection in all wards and frequent no-shows at important meetings.
Certainly it is time for change but will the ANC voters continue to be chickens voting for KFC?
The DA says they will get NMB moving forwards again. “Where the DA governs, like in the City of Cape Town, directorates receive clean audits because money is spent properly. This is the story we need to be telling in Nelson Mandela Bay. On the 3rd August 2016, vote for change so that we can take NMB forward again.”
