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His name is Moses Kgomu, he scored R44m inflated tender at Govan Mbeki municipality.
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He is the most paid and frequently hired tenderpreneur in Secunda.
An investigation report shows how he scored big while being favoured by the Govan Mbeki local municipality, charging R44.4m for security services rendered for just over a year & half.
An investigation report shows how he scored big while being favoured by the Govan Mbeki local municipality, charging R44.4m for security services rendered for just over a year & half.
The R44.4 million was paid by the Govan Mbeki local municipality in payments occurring over a 19-month period to Kgomu’s El Gondor security company despite it not having a contract with the municipality.
In 2017 El Gondor was paid R6.7 million for 3 months worth of work.
In 2017 El Gondor was paid R6.7 million for 3 months worth of work.
The following year 11 payments occurring over 11 months amounting to R21.3 million were paid to Kgomu’s El Gondor. Last year El Gondor received R16.3 million for work spanning just over 5 months.
Kgomu made news in October 2017 when his security guards reported him to the Private Security Sector Provident Fund after he had been deducting money from the workers since 2014 but never paid it over to the Fund.
In June 2018 his guards again protested & told the media how he refused to pay them their bonuses as well as paying their salaries on time. He at the time said that his company was still owed by the municipality & this was the reason he was not be able to pay workers on time
When the workers merely protested for wages and when Kgomu claimed being broke, the municipality had in fact payed him R3.6 million – half of it in May and the other half in June 2018.
Investigators hired to look at complaints of bad governance, corruption and nepotism at the municipality said that they picked Govan Mbeki’s 16 frequently paid and preferred companies and found that El Gondor was the most paid despite not having a contract with the municipality.
The report found the money paid to the companies by the municipality has considerably increased in two financial years & that most of the services offered to the municipality was a way of diverting funds. Officials who colluded with service providers must be charged accordingly
