Big companies want to milk RAF dry: Mente

RAF board seen at a taxi rank.

Member of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) Veronica Mente says there is a need to amend the Road Accident Fund (RAF) Act.

Members of SCOPA are conducting an inquiry into affairs at RAF.

The inquiry follows numerous allegations over the years of maladministration, financial impropriety, and the misuse of public funds.

Mente says former RAF CEO Collins Letsoalo tried during his tenure to transform the entity, to ensure that they achieve the objective of paying claims swiftly to the rightful claimants.

“There is so many glaring things that are coming out of the inquiry. A syndicate of big companies that want to milk RAF dry, 13 big companies. Law firms, medical aid companies, medical practitioners and hospitals, and you do not understand what is happening. The law enables this environment to be such. There is a need for transformation, overhaul transformation.”

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