Audit Opinions Of Irregularities Issued To Four Municipalities: Ag

The office of the Auditor General says it has formally issued audit opinions of material irregularities to four municipalities for late submission of financial statements for 2023/2024 financial year. Earlier, AG Tsakani Maluleke wrote to the Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza requesting her to use her legislative intervention in the case of ten municipalities that failed to submit annual financial statements for the year under review.

Head of the National Audit in the AGs office, Bongi Ngoma says two municipalities are yet to submit, while the audits for four others are still being processed and another has been concluded.

"We have issued material irregularities on all of them. So, anticipating a question by honourable Mente that says you have got the powers now, what have you, with these powers around these ones. So, we have notified on all of these four outstanding submissions of annual financial statements. So, we have used our powers chair, which is why trend, as I started earlier on, you have noted that the trend has been reducing over the years. It has been as a result of the effectiveness of the material irregularities in those instances," says Ngoma.

The office of the Auditor General AGSA says the bulk of material irregularities by four municipalities that failed to submit their annual financial statements on time was caused by the flouting of procurement processes and goods not received.

The AGs office was updating Scopa on the municipalities that failed to meet the deadline of submitting annual financial statements.