The upgrading of informal settlements and infrastructure in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in the Eastern Cape has hit a snag.
The National Treasury has cut the grant funding to the Metro by more than R171 million due to underspending.In the current financial year, the Metro only managed to spend close to 40% of the Treasury grant, after setting a target to spend more.He says, “We need to commit that money, we need to put projects in place once that money is committed. We will sign projects and make the commitment to Treasury that indeed this money will be spent.
Opposition parties have blamed the underspending on a lack of planning from the coalition government.Democratic Alliance Caucus leader Retief Odendaal says, “What we have here is a government that the latest cuts gazetted last week indicating the cuts was going to fulfill another R 172 million, it highlights the inability of Nelson Mandela Bay to spend their money to make progress by the end of February.
The United Democratic Movement Councillor Luxolo Namette says, “As the UDM, we are disappointed and we are saying to the current coalition, this is unfair to our taxpayers’ money of NMB, so we are disappointed. The current coalition is incompetent.” Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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