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Coalition of corruption feels nothing for NMB’s poverty stricken residents

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Dear MyPE

The ANC-led coalition of corruption has yet again shown that it feels nothing for the suffering poor residents of the Nelson Mandela Bay, by slashing its budget for Assistance to the Poor Programme (ATTP).

Whilst other municipalities have been setting aside additional funding to assist the poor amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Nelson Mandela Bay sees it fit to reduce spending on the poor.

The amount budgeted for ATTP in the Metro’s 2020/2021 budget is now only half of what the DA and its coalition partners made available to help the most vulnerable residents during the two years that we governed! See table here.

The Covid-19 pandemic is sweeping through the country and proper sanitation is of the utmost importance in fighting the virus.

In spite of this, the 2020/2021 municipal budget only provides for R373 million for sanitation services to the poor. This is a far cry from the R620 million (2016/2017) and R733 million (2017/2018) that the DA and its coalition partners made available.

Possibly the most shocking aspect of the sanitation budget is that only R5 million is budgeted for the eradication of bucket toilets in the 2020/2021 financial year.

This decision was taken despite the fact that the Metro needs R76 million to eradicate the City’s 6 000 existing bucket toilets.

The amount needed to rid the City of bucket toilets was contained in a report that was recently presented to councillors.

While the DA and its coalition partners were in government, we eradicated almost 10 000 bucket toilets, spending R44,88 million (2016/2017) and R47,5 million (2017/2018) to achieve this.

In addition, the Metro’s 2020/21 budget only provides for R406 million for ATTP water provision.

This stands in contrast with the DA and its coalition partners spend of R713,4 million (2016/2017) and R756,3 million (2017/2018) to provide water to households who qualified for ATTP.

The corrupt cabal that has hijacked Nelson Mandela Bay have shown time and time again that they do not care about the residents of this City. The only thing they are interested in is looting the municipal coffers and serving their own personal interests, even if it means running Nelson Mandela Bay into the ground in the process.

The DA will continue to stand against the corrupt and morally bankrupt syndicate of thugs in charge of the City.

We will fight to rid our city of corruption so that we can move Nelson Mandela Bay forward again.

Regards

NMB Cllr Nqaba Bhanga
DA EC Provincial Leader

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