JOHANNESBURG – Political analyst Lukhona Mnguni has approached the Public Protector over the R14-million mistakenly paid to a student at Walter Sisulu University (WSU).

He is calling for a probe into how Intellimali, the student payment agency, made an error of this magnitude without anyone noticing.

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“The relationship between WSU and Intellimali is important to probe. The relationship between Intellimali, the Spar in East London and any other grocery food shop where these vouchers are utilised by students is also important to probe,” the analyst says.”Thirdly, the checks and balances within the systems of Intelimali must be probed and fourthly, the type of remedial action that must be taken against the student.

“It seems to me that this problem stems from within Intellimali and I think there’s good cause to suspect that there must have been some corruption gone wrong here,” Mguni said.

“To move from 1,400, you must punch in 4 extra zeros, but to not notice that 14 million has moved from your accounts for 74 days is actually quite disturbing.”

He believes only a fact-finding probe will be able to unearth the truth.

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