Madam Deputy Speaker, the most important thing when one does anything is to allow the users, the operators, to own the campaign. That means that municipalities must be able to own it. The first thing we believe must done by the municipalities is to establish municipal public accounts committees so that politicians can be empowered and able to ensure that they ask the right questions of the administration in terms of accountability.
The second thing is to ensure that capable and competent people in the finance section are employed. Thirdly, the audit committees, which are structures of people coming from outside, must be established to be able to do their work in municipalities. The audits and risk units must be in place. From our point of view, we believe that those things will assist in ensuring that all municipalities deal with the issues.
The question we are faced with is: Can we establish municipal public accounts committees now, on the eve of the elections, or do we wait for the elections to take place next year and then establish these structures? It is a vexing question. We are still dealing with it, but we believe that we will be able to find the answer and be able to take a particular view on what has to be done. In that way we believe that these matters are going to be dealt with and that the additional managers I have been requested to employ will be in their positions. Thank you.