OUTA continues its fight against e-Tolls
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) briefed the media this morning to provide an update on their position paper regarding the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP).
OUTA's Transport Portfolio Director, Ben Theron, says they have calculated that the project should have cost between R8 billion and R8.7 billion.
"This resulted in an over-payment to the tune of between R9 billion and R10 billion for this project," says Theron
OUTA's Wayne Duvenhage says this work out to R92 million per kilometre, despite the fact that less than a third of the roads are newly built.
"They paid just under R17.9 billion for this project. Essentially, this upgrade was roughly a 27 percent increase in surface area and the rehabilitation and resurfacing of 37 percent being the rest of the projects," says Duvenhage.
Theron says they will take this matter forward.
"This week we will be writing to various ministers, including the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Public Enterprise to seek their intervention and commitment to introduce a commission of inquiry into, amongst other, the excessive cost pertaining to GFIP and the general high cost of road construction in South Africa over the last decade," says Theron.
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