A source in the upper echelons of the Metro tells OFM News that five departments in the metro, including engineering, corporate services and finance, had failed to submit complete reports as requested. Officials also failed to include the Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) on today’s agenda, which then resulted in the council members deciding to postpone the matter to Monday 7 October 2022.

The ANC Mangaung Caucus, which leads the metro with 51 members, has been divided due to political infighting and this earlier led to the metro failing to adopt the budget on two occasions.

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Among other factors which led to the collapse of the special council sitting on Monday, is the alleged failure of the metro’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) to send an order to a service provider for live streaming the sitting.

In July this year, the ANC’s upper structure Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) Coordinator, Paseka Nompondo, told journalists that the party had requested the Metro’s ANC Caucus for the disbandment of the controversial entity.

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OFM News previously reported that an employee of Centlec flagged the institution's dealings with its management. According to a co-worker representative, Ishmael Oganne, who is representing another manager on precautionary suspension, those who have different views of Sekoboto are being targeted and dealt with through dubious means.

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“I want South Africans to understand that Centlec is an entity and is using taxpayers' money. We have debated in the hearing to say the presiding officer is biased and we have read his duties and even his appointment letter. His appointment letter is far from the time limit of the collective agreement. He said to us inside the hearing that if we want him to recuse himself we must write him a letter and so we did but in his response, he told us that he is God and refused to recuse himself and the letter had no Centlec cover letter, so how is this authentic?" Oganne said.

This is merely a few months after its battle with ousted Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Hlonelwa Nkomo.

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