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The North West Provincial government will pursue corruption syndicates relentlessly until those who have been looting state resources are behind bars and their properties repossessed, Premier Thandi Modise warned on Friday.

The stern warning was issued by Premier Modise in her hard hitting keynote address delivered at the Provincial Road Summit attended by close to two thousand held at the Mmabatho Convention Centre.

Premier Modise said that those that thought that they were untouchable and could loot state resources with impunity should know that its game time.

“You have reached this far and no further. We are not going to be scared off or succumb to any pressure to abandon the fight against corruption because road users deserve quality and safer roads. We will not be bought because our integrity is not for sale,” vowed Modise.

She emphasised that her administration is tightening the screw against corruption with a major focus on price collusion within the tendering system.

“This province cannot afford to pay three to four times what other provinces are paying for road construction. Our communities deserve quality and safer roads and not expensive but inferior roads,” the Premier said to loud applause.    

She underlined that though odds may appear to be stacked against her administration from the network involving politicians and public servants, her administration will not be intimidated nor succumb to pressure because it knows too well that the overwhelming majority of people in the province hate corruption as it diverts resources that are supposed to better their lives.