The Initial Acountability

[marshbags]

Sun, February 11, 2007 : Last updated 0:28 am (Thai local time)

Courtesy of The Nation.

SIDELINES

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Where have all of Suvarnabhumi's 'consultants' gone?

Now that we are likely to move all airlines and related services back to Don Muang airport while repair work is carried out at Suvarnabhumi, which has become a gigantic structural testimony to massive corruption, investigations must continue to determine which heads should roll.

We have blamed politicians, civil servants and contractors, who form an axis of corruption and misdeeds in the multibillion-baht airport project, but have yet to question the role of highly paid "consultants" and the scope of their responsibility.

We have seen that the transparent roof of the airport structure is highly unsuitable for a country like Thailand, which has to bear the brunt of hot sunshine throughout the year. Some airports in the Middle East have used similar materials, but certainly not similar quality and qualifications.

We should ask how the designers, consultants and those who were in charge right from the beginning could have approved such transparent roofing. What was the real purpose or hidden motive for choosing such a roof?

Was nobody involved wise enough to point out then that the heat would be close to unbearable and the air-conditioning system would be inadequate - which has been proven now through the suffering of passengers and all the people working at Suvarnabhumi?

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Please go to the following url for the complete article:-

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/02/11...on_30026526.php

A good starting point that should then unravel the dodgy dealings and who got what out of the feeding bowl over the last few years, in particular the last FIVE, revealing a lot of the truth behing the corruption along with the benifactors.

If the "Engineers for the Nation" can admit / face their responsibilities, then the consultants should be able to follow suit in a similar tone.

When it comes down to reputations, I for one cannot believe the consutants will be willing to shoulder all the resposibility, especially as their creditability is on the line.

If they have to punish them all, they will have to seek the majority of future professionals from proven overseas countries while also making sure they have unquestionable integrity to squash attempts to be influenced by unethical politicians and other people of influence / Puyai.

marshbags

P.S.

With a bit of luck i,ll be able to stay in one airport when i have to travel in the near future.

I noted in one article that the airport authorities are all advising this and quote a 15 minute max fast track from one airport to the other should they have to use both ?

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/02/10...ss_30026459.php

I thought it was a lot more, time wise, to transfer, going by various members postings on T.Visa.

They usually voice the reality of the situations so this leads me to wonder if it is possible to achieve ?

or indeed anything like it.