{"id":166887,"date":"2020-09-27T22:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/gauteng-health-head-should-be-suspended\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:35:47","slug":"gauteng-health-head-should-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gauteng-health-head-should-be-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng Health Head should be suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gauteng Health Head should be suspended<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Dear Johannesburg<\/p>\n

Gauteng Premier David Makhura should immediately suspend Professor Mkululi Lukhele, the Head of the Gauteng Health Department, who is implicated by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) in the irregular award of PPE contracts according to a report in City Press newspaper today.<\/p>\n

According to the report, damning evidence has been unearthed of price tampering, inflation of the value of goods, and collusion between Gauteng health officials and companies that were awarded lucrative PPE contracts.<\/p>\n

This includes R80 million payments to a company owned by presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko\u2019s husband, Nkosi Thandisizwe Diko. The Diko\u2019s are family friends of suspended Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku and his wife Loyiso.<\/p>\n

The SIU has reportedly found that Lukhele failed to institute disciplinary processes against Lehloenya even after her \u201cunlawful and irregular conduct\u201d was reported to him.<\/p>\n

Makhura has been inexplicably slow in suspending Lukhele who is the accounting officer for the department and was plainly derelict in his duty to ensure that proper procurement procedures were followed.<\/p>\n

Last month I called for Lukhele\u2019s suspension after it was revealed in a reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature that he<\/p>\n

authorized the choice of a fishy company for a R140 million contract that was found to be irregular and cancelled after R17.2 million was already paid.<\/p>\n

The SIU reports need to be made public and criminal charges instituted against all those implicated in corruption.<\/p>\n

I welcome the SIU\u2019s reported recommendation that Lehloenya and Lukhele pay back R29.7 million that was overpaid to Ledla Structural Development, a company used to channel money to Diko\u2019s company Royal Bhaka.<\/p>\n

Swift action is needed to recover funds and clean up the deep rot in this department, which needs new political and administrative leadership untainted by previous failures.<\/p>\n

Regards<\/p>\n

Jack Bloom MPL<\/strong>
DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gauteng Health Head should be suspended: Dear Johannesburg Gauteng Premier David Makhura should immediately suspend Professor Mkululi Lukhele, the Head of the Gauteng Health Department, who is implicated by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) in the irregular award of PPE contracts according to a report in City Press newspaper today. According to the report, damning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[5586,6066,140,4017,1629],"class_list":{"0":"post-166887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-gauteng","8":"tag-head","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-should","11":"tag-suspended","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}