North West legislature calls for independent investigation into suspicious bus depot fire

By Alicia Mmashakana

North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Wessels Morweng, has called for a thorough and in-depth investigation into the cause of a fire that broke out Monday night at a bus depot in the Moretele Local Municipality.

The incident in the Moretele village destroyed at least nine buses.

The vehicles belong to parastatal North West Transport Investment (NTI).

“We have recently turned a new leaf with our intervention at the entity by addressing the leadership instability experienced for some time now. We have also ensured that employees received their salaries as promised,” said Morweng on Tuesday.

“Therefore, we believe that we have made great effort to assist the entity in realising its full potential. This however is a set back and overall unfortunate incident.”

Morweng further explained that the NTI Acting Group CEO, Dr Ntlhopeng Dikobe and management at the entity has plans in place