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How in heaven’s name did GWI pay US$360,000 for a sewage vacuum truck?

Oct 05, 2012 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
Every single day the PPP gives us something egregious, shocking and indecent. The PPP paid US $360,000 for a Aquatech sewage vacuum truck.
The PPP paid US$360,000 for a truck that is not even the biggest capacity truck carried by Aquatech. It looks like the PPP controllers at GWI bought the B-10 model, which can carry 10 yards of debris and 1000 gallons of water. The B-15 carries 15 yards of debris and 1500 gallons of water. The B-52 carries 5 yards of debris and 2000 gallons of water.
GWI says it paid a shocking US$360,000 for this smaller model. A cursory check for similar sized vacuum trucks made within the last two years shows prices that are at least US $100,000 less than what this band of misfits paid for this sewage truck.
The people in this country must ask themselves if they signed up for this kind of callous incompetence, wastage and squandermania. This madness is not stopping. The result of the election last year did not alter this disease. Taxpayers have to repay this blatant wastage and misuse of public funds. It is misuse, because there is no way anyone with half a brain, capable of doing just minimal checking on the internet and simplistic due diligence, would never pay US $360,000 for a truck like this one. Absolutely no way. Somebody was made a fool of in this deal and the lazy opposition must find out who and why.
Why didn’t the PPP charlatans consider buying a used sewage truck? After all, Guyana is not the USA or UK with proper centralized sewage systems where a truck of this nature is desperately needed.
This is a country filled with septic tanks, where there are already private operators who can perform septic cleaning services.
This is a small country, where a good used truck with fairly low mileage could be obtained at a far lower price than US$360,000 and be used for a long time without any problems.
While the capital city and other areas of this country are in absolute squalor and filth, the kind of sewage problems a truck of this nature is intended to deal with simply does not occur in Guyana. This US $360,000 fiasco could end up like the Skeldon Sugar Factory, Enmore Packaging Plant, Lethem Hospital and other messy white elephant disasters.
The stink surrounding this sewage truck is overpowering and must be probed.
The indolent opposition must get down and dirty with this fiasco.
Here is a link to a used Aquatech B-10 with decent mileage (68,000) selling for US $160,000: http://www.commercialtrucktrader.com/find/listing/2007-Aquatech-Sewer-Cleaners-105254384. Here is another link for a 2005 Aquatech B-10 with 28,153 miles selling for US $90,000 (four times less than the price paid by GWI) http://www.commercialtrucktrader.com/find/listing/2005-Aquatech-Sewer-Cleaners-105638517.
I am flabbergasted this atrocity took place.
They took a loan with interest for this? The Guyanese people must demand answers to the questions surrounding this madness.
M. Maxwell

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