The Democratic
Alliance said the department of Correctional Services appears to be
deliberately avoiding Parliamentary scrutiny on the controversial fencing and
access control contract managed by the Independent Development Trust.
DA MP of
Correctional Services James Selfe said it is a concern that maybe the
department is trying to hide this contract from parliament.
Selfe said this
follows on an equally controversial and very expensive contract that was given
to two companies in 2007 which costs the taxpayer over R 600 million.
“The current
contract is expected to cost a further R420 million and when one is dealing
with over a billion rand of taxpayers money, one needs to have proper parliamentary
scrutiny and it concerns us that for the last two weeks the portfolio committee
on correctional services has been unable to get a coherent set of answers from either
the IDT or the department of correctional services,” highlighted Selfe.
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