NTI EMPLOYEES PAID AS PROMISED BY MEC MORWENG

Mahikeng – The MEC responsible for the North West Department of Community Safety and Transport Morweng, Wessels Morweng is grateful that employees of NTI have been paid as he had promised. Though the procedures of processing payments through an external company delayed the pay date from the one MEC promised over a week ago, the employees were finally paid this week.

“I can confidently say that as the Department we kept our promise of making sure employees will get what is due to them. Some of the employees had also got in touch with our Office to express appreciation of our interventions. This is the beginning of taking the entity back to where it belongs and be able to sustain itself as we all know the entity has potential”, said MEC Morweng.

The Department had to intervene by using an external company to process employees’ salaries as previous experience was that money allocated for salaries were used for other priorities. In other instances, where workers were paid, it had been half of what they should be paid.

As part of intervening at the entity, MEC Morweng had towards the end of last year, seconded Dr Ntlhopeng Dikobe who is the Chief Director for Corporate Services at the Department, to be the Acting CEO at NTI.

MEC Morweng urged the employees to put the interests of the entity first and be vigilant of those whose interest could be at the detriment of the entity.

“As the MEC responsible for this Department which is the shareholder representative, we will ensure that NTI functions optimally”, said MEC Morweng.

The MEC is expected to engage employees this week as part of mapping a way forward to avoid challenges that afflicted NTI in the recent past.

ENDS!!!