On Thursday, 24 January 2013, the North West Provincial Legislature's Standing Committee on Provincial Public Accounts (SCOPA) resolved to institute an investigation after former MEC for Finance, Loiusa Mabe, the current MEC, Paul Sebegoe, and the Acting Head of the Department of Finance, Geo Paul, failed to give the committee a clear account of procurement processes followed in appointing Morake Attorneys, a company that has been paid over R13 million for a disciplinary hearing of the Department of Finance head.
The two MECs, were previously called to account to the committee regarding media reports that the Department of Finance spent R13 million on legal fees of a disciplinary hearing of its suspended Head of Department (HOD), Johannes Mohlala, but failed to do so. SCOPA then resolved to ask Premier Thandi Modise to expel them.
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