Kaieteur News should investigate this IDB/EU project

Jul 08, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor;
First, I must commend you and your newspaper for the anti-corruption stance you have taken.
In any democracy, free speech and the right to question things should be respected and acknowledged. I trust that you will continue to investigate the truth and continue to expose corruption as you see them.
I wish to bring to your newspapers attention to a worrying development which I hope that your capable journalists can investigate.
As you would recall, your newspapers did run an article pertaining to the IDB/GOG/EU GPL project of which a Chinese contractor CMC wrote a letter in the Guyana Chronicle suggesting to have been tipped for the project.
Mr. Editor, it has now been over 5 months since this tender was opened and evaluated. To date, no award has been made. It would raise some questions that both GPL and IDB may surely want to clear the air.
In this day when there is perception of corruption dogging us, both entities should pull out the stops to assure that everything is above board or at the least, update the public.
Is it true that the Government of Guyana is pressing the IDB to award this contract to the same Chinese company which your newspaper reported on for working on the sub-station and transmission lines project? Your newspaper quoted a report of problems with these sub-stations. We are hearing that IDB and the Government of Guyana is shifting around the resources of the loan to accommodate the Chinese contractor?
Mr. Editor I hope your newspaper can investigate this matter and enquire why is it that an evaluation for a tender is taking so long and why is it that the IDB is condoning this?
We should encourage a process of procurement where care is taken but not where questions are being raised ever so often.
We will not tolerate situations of the past where no one could be held accountable and very little recourse could be gained for wrongdoings at GPL.
A.S.
An Anti Corruption Activist

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