R6-m in taxpayers’ money apparently down the drain, project abandoned

This precinct, to be completed by 2021, will have specialised units such as the Dog Unit, the Community Liaison Unit, Public Order Policing Unit, the K9-Unit, the VIP Unit and the SWAT/Intervention Unit.

April 8, 2019

Fanie Mthupha 1 minute read

Some of the unused building material was left to rot on the site for over a year and the ward councillor is convinced that they are no longer fit for purpose.

A source has revealed that R6-million in taxpayers’ money had allegedly been wasted on an unfinished project in Boksburg by the Ekurhuleni municipality.

During the delivery of his State of the City address at the Germiston Council Chambers last month, Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina said the metro would construct a specialised services precinct in Boksburg.

The mayor, however, did little to inform the public that the construction of the precinct in question has already proven to be a failed project, as the company appointed to carry out the job left the site almost a year ago.

According to a well-placed source, construction works on the project commenced almost two years ago, and the contractor abandoned the site after it apparently failed to deliver as required – almost a year after it commenced construction works.

Read full story in tomorrow’s Advertiser dated April 12.