LOBAMBA:Jabulani 'Buy Cash' Mabuza, the Speaker in the House of Assembly has called an urgent sitting amid a constitutional crisis triggered by Prime Minister(PM) Russell Mmiso Dlamini who refused to account for missing R210million public and donated funds.
The alleged looted millions donated by international and local organizations,were meant to benefit members of the public as grants during the COVID-19 lockdown,Auditor General(AG) Timothy Matsebula concluded in his reports that the PM who was serving as the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the National Disaster Management Agency(NDMA), failed to account for the missing public funds.
But Prime Minister(PM) Russell Dlamini triggered a constitutional crisis on Thursday after refusing to account for the missing public funds and instead, labelled the Office of the Auditor General(AG) as incompetent.
The urgent sitting for Members of Parliament(MPs) was confirmed by an MP who clarified that,the issue of the constitutional crisis triggered by the PM will be discussed at length on Monday.
“It’s true, the Speaker has called an urgent sitting and the constitutional crisis matter triggered by the Prime Minister is expected to be discussed tomorrow(Monday)”, said the MP who cannot be named for ethical reasons.
Efforts to reach Jabulani 'Buy Cash' Mabuza, the Speaker in the House of Assembly proved unsuccessful at the time of compiling this report.
Prime Minister(PM) Russell Mmiso Dlamini castrated the Office of the Auditor General(AG) single-handedly on Thursday when addressing editors, he was asked to account for the missing public funds.
“It is important that we have to begin to look at whether the reports of the Auditor General can now be relied upon. Yes I’m saying that, just hold on, just listen you need to listen to that.We now have to work on whether the reports of the Auditor General can be relied upon.Let me give you an example;the country now understands that there’s R180million missing from NDMA, there was never R180million that is missing. Now he has actually said, there’s another R30million,so people have began to write about R210million,all that is false I can surely tell you, it is false and in fact it points to the incompetence in that office”,said the Prime Minister(PM) when responding to a question posed by Bheki Makhubu, the editor of the Nation Magazine during a Breakfast Meeting with editors at the Mountain View Hotel on Thursday.
Speaker Jabulani Mabuza.