MEC Maile welcomes SIU settlement agreements reached over irregular R431-million contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic [SOUND]

# Gauteng MEC for Education, Lebogang Maile has welcomed the Special Investigating Unit’s settlement agreements with various companies and individuals who had benefitted from the department’s  irregular 431-million-rand contracts. Spokesperson Onwabile Lubhelwana says this was for the decontamination, disinfection, and sanitisation of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic between March and December 2020. He says the department is thrilled that progress is being made in recouping the money which had been paid to these companies: