The Keetmanshoop Town Council has suspended acting CEO Deseree Boois, who holds the Financial Strategic Executive position, with full salary pending an investigation into alleged financial irregularities.

Council resolved Boois’s suspension at a meeting on Tuesday.

The acting CEO of Keetmanshoop Municipality, Catherine Boois, has resigned with immediate effect on Friday. 

Boois, an Economic Development Manager at Mariental, was seconded as an acting CEO for a three-month period in February this year.