ANC man’s huge bill for ‘porn’

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has recommended that Lehlogonolo Masoga, the deputy speaker of the Limpopo Legislature, should pay back a telephone bill of R125 000 while on an official trip in the US in August 2014.

It is believed Masoga racked up the bill in one month, a huge chunk of which was allegedly the cost of watching porn.

The legislature had settled the huge bill.

“The amount spent by the deputy speaker was unreasonably high as compared to other members of the legislature who travelled with him during the same trip to the USA,” Mkhwebane said in her report, which she detailed at a press conference in Pretoria yesterday.

The public protector said the deputy speaker had failed to exercise a high standard of professional ethics and to ensure that state resources were used efficiently.

She gave Masoga 60 working days to pay back the money.

Mkhwebane yesterday released a report on several investigations she has conducted.

She said in her 20 months in the office of the public protector, she had received more than 25 000 complaints, more than 21 000 of which had been finalised. – ANA

The amount spent by the deputy speaker was unreasonably high

Busisiwe Mkhwebane Public protector