‘The money will not be spent on service delivery as it will probably need to be sent back to the National Treasury,’ the DA’s Retief Odendaal told the Eastern Cape legislature.

The MEC for cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) in the Eastern Cape, Zolile Williams, has admitted that the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality (NMBM) failed to spend R152-million of a R497-million maintenance budget in the past financial year.

Despite this, the metro still ran up a loss of R1.58-billion.

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