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An insult to taxpayers
DEAR EDITOR,
If what the pictorial representation in last Sunday’s Kaieteur News front page, of part of the Black Bush Polder Road, currently very badly deteriorated is true, then that named contractor did not give money for value; first to the then government who awarded the contract, and second, to the Black Bush residents, who were the supposed beneficiaries.
By any stretch of the imagination, the inset caption of US$6.6M is quite a huge sum for such a roadway; which should be enough for a competent and properly executed road construction works. And speaking from a layman’s view, even if there were over runs, that still should not mean that a denuded, substandard quality finished product being done, as shown in the pictorial.
It is abysmal, and shocking that a high-priced constructed roadway should reflect such a deteriorated pathway, in such a short period, after construction in 2012. At first glance, it would seem, as if no kind of work has ever been done. On observation, too, deterioration would have had to commence, almost immediately after the completed works, to reflect the shameful shocking state of a roadway, for such a huge sum purportedly invested.
These are the kinds of slip shod, and shoddy works that have been done by persons who would have benefitted ten-fold from PPP/C infrastructural contracts. One wonders whether the residents would not have brought such an infrastructural tragedy to their political party from their support base; and if so, what had been done.
One must also query where would the Zamal Hussains have been; the type of PPP/C spokesperson who constantly seek to criticise the Coalition Government for every conceivable social ill/deficiency, which the PPP/C ignored during its 23 years in government, and which the latter have been effecting remedial works, in every region, since 2015; case in point the East Bank Berbice road.
This particular contractor, identified in the caption, should be asked to remedy this road, which is more than insult to the taxpayers of this country; and at his personal cost. It is another graphic, tragic illustration as to what occurred under the PPP/C administration, which was aided and abetted by silence of the beneficiaries/supporters who are now very vociferous in their criticism of this administration, which continues to address infrastructure across the country.
Regards,
Aditya Panday
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