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Abuse of regional machinery leads to excessive fuel consumption
… “Region using too much fuel to do too little work–Chairman
Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, recently revealed that fuel is being stolen in the region. He is paying very close attention to the use of fuel in Berbice. He also revealed that the region is dealing with a bulldozer operator in the Crabwood Creek area who was involved in doing private works with the government equipment.
“This is something we will not tolerate, and I want to make this abundantly clear; the regional administration will not accept any work done outside of works stipulated and work that comes under our supervision”. He made the remarks at the 2012 Budget Presentation in Berbice recently.
He noted that the operator took monies from “quite a number of farmers”…the “very farmers who will come to us and complain that we are not doing anything, but when we send our machines to do work so that many people benefit, individuals bribe the operators and ask them to do private work”.
Armogan also added that there is a situation whereby an operator did works on quite a number of acres of land…”maybe hundreds of acres of private bulldozing and he told me he collected $20,000 only…he was honest enough to say they [the people] only give he $20,000…from $2M works, he collected $20,000–utilised the machinery, ended up with some broken parts as well– which we gotta fix now, fuel that belonged to the region and then he is going to tell me he only bulldozed a couple of dams and all this private work he was involved in doing– that nonsense must stop!”.
The man, he said, confessed to the regional administration to committing the act, “and he is going to get dismissed now”.
The operator has already been put on suspension pending further investigations. Depending on the outcome of the investigations, “as it looks presently, we will have to part company with this person”. “This is a message I want to send to all other operators, whether they be excavator operators, bulldozer operators, people involved in the distribution of fuel, pump operators…who we understand are selling fuel as well– we have reports of pump operators selling fuel, we want to send a very clear message, we will not tolerate this and once we have substantial evidence to prove that they are involved in these kinds of activities, we will part company with them and in some cases, hand them over to the police”.
Addressing cases whereby fuel is being stolen across the region, Armogan stated that fuel has been a “big bone of contention in this region and we intend– if we can’t stop it completely– there must be a great amount of minimisation in terms of fuel [mis]use in this region”.
He said that the region is using too much fuel to “do too little work”, so we “have to be able to have a grip on the use of fuel in the region. All of us are involved in it and we are paying very close attention to the use of fuel and the machines”.
He urged residents and farmers not to encourage operators to get involved in fraudulent activities.
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