Axed Buffalo City Metro Development Agency (BCMDA) CEO Bulumko Nelana has scored yet another court victory over his employer, as the high court in Makhanda on Tuesday ruled that his January 25 axing by the agency’s interim board be reversed. Nelana, who was initially suspended in November, on January 24 obtained a court order declaring his suspension illegal and set aside.
While suspended Buffalo City Metro Development Agency (BCMDA) CEO Bulumko Nelana thought he had received a reprieve this week, when on Tuesday the high court in Makhanda reversed his October suspension, his joy however was short-lived. The agency’s interim board went for the jugular and terminated his contract on Wednesday afternoon, his first day back in office since early October.
The suspension of Buffalo City Metro Development Agency (BCMDA) CEO Bulumko Nelana was on Tuesday declared unlawful, null and void, and set aside by the high court in Makhanda, with Nelana’s legal team promising he would be back in his office on Wednesday morning. Nelana was placed on precautionary suspension, with full pay, in late October by the agency’s new interim board pending a probe into circumstances surrounding his contract extension.
Buffalo City Metro Development Agency CEO Bulumko Nelana has been suspended by the agency's new interim board just a month after his five-year contract was extended for a second term.