The EFF has vowed to physically drag the newly appointed deputy mayor of the City of Tshwane Dr Naaiphi Moya out of the municipality if she does not account for R 10 000.00 ten thousand the party claims she fraudulently acquired.
The red berets claim the metro paid R 167 000.00 for her trip to Saudi Arabia which she failed to undertake as well as to return money given to her as a travel stipend.
Tshwane Regional Chairperson Obakeng Ramabodu made the threat during an oversight visit to the abandoned Caledonian Stadium in Arcadia on Friday.
“We are going to hold her accountable. That woman withing two weeks and we are making this pronouncement, we are not bluffing. Within two weeks if the city manager doesn’t give us a report we are going to drag that woman physically of that office, jah, we are going to do it. They must go and ask Marietha ( Marietha Aucamp who was Chief of Staff in the office of then mayor Solly Msimang when it emerged she only had a matric certificate in 2018), a person who came with matric and was chief of staff in the office of Solly Msimang, we dragged her out of Mayco so we are ready to drag that woman out if we don’t get results within two weeks,” said Ramabodu.
Ramabodu also dismissed claims that the EFF could potentially cost an African woman a job saying it was part of a blackmail campaign by the DA and Action SA who are governing the country’s capital through a coalition arrangement.
“ when it emerged the bogus doctor we wanted to make a mayor had issues, the DA and Action SA were the first ones to jump and now they want to blackmail us with black woman this and that. This has nothing to do with her as a person, all we are saying is that if she could still ten thousand in a junior position what kind of damage will she cause as a deputy mayor,” he said to COPE’s Dr Murunwa Makwarela who was hounded out of the mayorship after it emerged he was financially insolvent.
The City of Tshwane had not commented at the time of publishing with spokesperson Selby Mokaba saying he is on leave and referring inquiries to Mayoral spokesperson Sipho Stuurman who did not answer calls nor reply to text.
Moya occupied the newly created position of Deputy Mayor of Tshwane this week.