8.2 In providing support, the MEC has sent three experts, two accountants and an auditor to look at the expenditure and supply chain management of the Municipality. The deployed financial experts have reported that there was a lack of co-operation from certain Senior Managers of the Municipality who have issued instructions to staff not to provide urgently required information, on the basis of which a comprehensive financial recovery plan would be developed. Following this lack of co- operation, the provincial government was forced to introduce tougher measures. However, significant progress has been recorded and all the allegations of corruption are being pursued.