Action needed on inept municipalities and meddling politicians: Masondo

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Deputy finance minister David Masondo wants municipal leaders be held accountable for poor financial management and decision-making.

Masondo also lamented that a large portion of conditional grants year on year go unspent, saying this robs communities of much needed infrastructure and services. “This is largely due to lack of forward planning by municipalities in appointing service providers to execute these projects,” he said.

Those that appoint service providers either appoint incompetent service providers or they poorly manage these contractors due to technical incapacity.Masondo said the municipal finance improvement programme was in its third phase of implementation as an intervention to assist local government in improving its spending on conditional grants and to assist municipalities in building sound revenue management systems.

 

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