, and is this week set to “meet and consult” with his legal team on a way forward, after he resigned from his position subsequent to his suspension last week.
“I am seeing my [legal] team and because the matter is sub judice, perhaps it will only be proper for me to give my side of the story once the matter has been cleared.” “The SIU found that the head of department failed to exercise his responsibility in the awarding of contracts to certain companies for the procurement of goods and services in relation to the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.”
“There has been an indication that [I] must pay back about R30 million. I am consulting on that and I need to get the relevant advice on this matter.”Last month City Press reported that Gauteng health department officials who were implicated in the province’s Covid-19 personal protective equipment looting scandal had been ordered to pay back nearly R30 million to the state, and that their pensions had been frozen.