Premier Modise: No stone will be left unturned in investigation allegations

Imogen Vollenhoven
28January 2013

North West Premier Thandi Modise said no stone will be left unturned in investigating allegations of irregularities in the appointment of a law firm that is conducting hearings against suspended Head of Department in the Department of Finance Johannes Mohlala.

Premier Modise made the commitment to the Select Committee on Public Accounts in the Provincial Legislature during its extraordinary sitting in Mmabatho on earlier this week.

Spokesperson Lesiba Kgwele said the premier vowed that as a department they will do everything in their power to get to the bottom of the matter in order to protect the state from embarrassment.

Kgwele says the Premier said no person was sworn into the Executive Council to defraud the government system.

Modise highlighted efforts that her Office had taken Members of the Executive council through a capacity building and induction programme on what is their mandate and functions and what areas into which they should not encroach in terms of the Public Finance Management Act.

Modise  added that HOD’s were also part of the session and encouraged not to allow Executive Authorities to usurp their functions as Accounting Officers and to seek intervention from the Premier should  they be put under any undue pressure to contravene supply chain management and employment processes and procedures.