Mnisi struggles to defend testimony at Madlanga Commission

Suspended Tshwane Chief Officer Gareth Mnisi has struggled to support his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria.

Mnisi said that he had ignored suspended police Organised Crime Unit member, Fannie Nkosi’s request to certify the compliance of seven companies that he had sent him, but evidence presented before the commission shows that Nkosi sent the list to Mnisi to manipulate the tender process.

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Suspended Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi says he made it clear to Sgt Fannie Nkosi that he couldn’t verify tender compliance. pic.twitter.com/d89Gi0u6iv

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The commission’s chairperson, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, maintains that Mnisi was cooperating with Nkosi despite saying he had no powers to check compliance.

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Gareth Mnisi faces pressure over his talks with Sgt Nkosi about the tender compliance issue, which he first claimed to have brushed off. Tune in to SABC News for the live broadcast. pic.twitter.com/BKhKKvUW51

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“I want to suggest to you that you were actually cooperating with Sergeant Nkosi, and when the names were given a second time, probably during the telephone calls, you had asked for the names again. And now he is giving you names so that there may be an award and that that award should be in accordance with the, or rather, should be in the sort of priority that is listed on here, on that second last text,” says Madlanga.

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