REPLACEMENT GREEN-LIT IN PEANUT BUTTER SAGA

)5A1C,672:1 A senior official at the )rancistown City Council )CC has said that a company that was procured for a 3300 000 worth supply of ¶faNe’ peanut butter has now been given the go ahead to deliver the authentic replacement product.

Although the council said the first batch of the new peanut butter product will be delivered within a month and a half this weeN 7he 0onitor sources said that the faNe peanut butter is yet to be replaced.

,nsiders at the council Tuestioned the authority’s commitment to ensure that the faNe peanut butter is replaced.

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LiNe we have maintained we are worNing around the clocN to rectify this situation and resume the supply of peanut butter to school children.”

3ule e[plained the council was still testing samples of the new peanut butter that 0agdinvel the company procured intends to supply the council with as a replacement for the faNe peanut butter.

´At the moment samples of a replacement peanut butter which had been sent for further testing at our laboratories have been approved and the supplier has been given the green light to supply council. :e are currently awaiting the replacement consignment and we assure our clients that we will not rest until the provision of peanut butter in schools is restored ” he said in his written response to 7he 0onitor enTuiry.

7he council warned that it will taNe action if the company does not deliver the right product as promised.

7his follows after an earlier investigative report this year by 7he 0onitor sister publication 0megi which unearthed that the council reportedly spent over 33 2 000 on a supply of faNe peanut butter that was delivered by a local company called 0agdinvel.

About 3 units Ng per unit of peanut butter were supplied to 20 schools by the )CC. 2ne thousand seven hundred units were successfully recalled while 3 had already been used in various schools after the 0megi e[posp.

7here were allegations that some council senior officials had linNs with the company but 0megi could not independently verify such allegations.

At the time 0megi raised the alarm on the supply of the faNe peanut butter which council insiders said the company’s directors 0argret 0asita and 'ineo 'igapeng had made a formal effort to supply the ¶Goody 7hoNoman’ peanut butter range a 6outh African product.

0agdinvel first came under fire after it was found that the company that promised to supply the council with the Goody 7hoNoman peanut butter ended up supplying a different brand with faNe Goody 7hoNoman labelling.

7he first weeN of -une the council said that the company had made an undertaNing to deliver the right product at its own cost and redeem itself.