Chair of the portfolio committee MP Faith Muthambi (GCIS)
Amathole District Municipality and Eastern Cape Cogta laid into each other during Parliament's Portfolio Committee of Cogta on Thursday over the municipality's financial mess.
Chair of the portfolio committee MP Faith Muthambi heard from ADM that Cogta was not supporting the ailing municipality financially at all.
Cogta Eastern Cape told Muthambi that it warned ADM years back to reverse its unlawful recategorisation of the Grade 6 authority to a Grade 7, which allowed
municipal manager, senior managers, and employees to earn way more than they deserved.
At the centre of the problems of the financially crippled Amathole District Municipality (ADM), is a fractured relationship between the municipality and the provincial department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) overseeing the local authority.