KNYSNA NEWS - The fate of Knysna Municipality’s senior administration hangs in the balance following the arrests of two senior municipal officials and a former councillor on Thursday, 1 October, with Dr Richard Martin, the municipality’s Director: Strategic Services and Integrated Human Settlements, temporarily appointed as acting municipal manager for 10 days.
It is further understood that Martin is expected to appoint an acting chief financial officer for the same 10-day period to ensure continuity in the municipality’s financial administration.
The temporary appointment was noted during a special council meeting on Friday, 2 October, following the arrests by members of the SAPS Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
The two senior municipal officials and former councillor are facing corruption charges linked to an investigation into alleged kickbacks involving a municipal security-services contract and are expected to appear in the Knysna Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 5 October.
Police have alleged that a businessman who had been awarded the contract was solicited for kickbacks in exchange for its continuation, and that hundreds of thousands of rand had allegedly already been paid.
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