The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is suing a security firm and seven of the city’s current and former senior staff in the hope of recouping R92.4m spent on CCTV cameras for the beleaguered bus system in Port Elizabeth. According to a TimesLIVE report, the municipality believes the payments – ultimately approved by suspended corporate services boss Mod Ndoyana between November 2013 and September 2014 – were irregular and unlawful as there was no legal contract in place.

It wants the Eastern Cape High Court (Port Elizabeth) to hold Afrisec Strategic Solutions and the other seven people liable for the nine payments over the 10-month period. The city believes that Afrisec was ‘commensurately unjustifiably enriched’ by the municipality and is liable to pay back the R92.4m. It claims the only binding document between the city and Afrisec was a letter from the municipality in July 2012‚ accepting Afrisec’s tender for the supply and installation of CCTV cameras and other security for municipal buildings. The tender was for three years‚ capped at R5m.

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