Village head ‘forged signatures’ to push through Thai Niyom project in Chiang Mai

By Kriangkrai Rattana 
The Nation

 

A village head in Chiang Mai province has been accused of forging the signatures of several locals to implement a Bt200,000 project using the government budget.

 

“We hope police will investigate our village head,” Ponpoj Pantusart said on Wednesday as he and other locals lodged a complaint with the San Kamphaeng Police Station. 

 

According to Ponpoj, Saneh Kantha-in, who serves as the village head of Ban Ton Doo in San Kamphaeng district, forged the signatures of at least 30 residents to push ahead a project to improve the waterworks of the village. 

 

The project was implemented under a Bt200,000 budget, as part of the government’s Thai Niyom scheme. 

 

 Saneh claimed a committee had been set up to study the waterworks-improvement project, but some locals had been listed as committee members without their knowledge. 

 

“I did not know I was a committee member until the village head showed up and told me to sign a paper for reimbursement,” Supaporn Jaimuk said. “So, I decided to lodge a complaint.” 

 

She said that she found other irregularities while looking through the list of participants at meetings held to endorse the project.

 

“Some names belong to people who are bedridden, while some belong to those who have actually moved out to work in other provinces or are overseas,” Supaporn said. 

 

San Kamphaeng Police Station’s superintendent Pol Colonel Chuwit Kongkaew said Saneh will undergo criminal proceedings if he is found to have forged signatures or documents.

 

“We will investigate further,” he said. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30356630

 

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There are some opportunities just too good to be missed. The good old days have never gone away.

This is in every corner of Thailand right down to the last grain of rice.anyone with any authority in Thailand in funds,grants and schemes are up to it from the top to the bottom.they just can't do the right thing it's impossible for them.ive got to gov water supplies to my property and nothing has ever com out of the taps.we got the village head in and he just shrugged his shoulders like he knew nothing.probably got the village to sign they got water supply taps fitted then had the pump money away.

200,000 baht? Not exactly redirecting the Mekong 

hardly enough for a bucket of water after the skimming's done

However: the intended objective of sustainable Thainess (Thai Niyom) has been achieved. Deceit and corruption prevail

I wonder how much of the 200,000 baht budget was actually spent on the water improvement project!

Corruption in Thailand?  Say it ain't so! 

Does this act of cheating by forging a signature in Thailand, really surprise anyone ? ? ?

Headed to the dreaded inactive post.

On 10/19/2018 at 12:14 PM, thaichiro said:

Headed to the dreaded inactive post.

What would that be, giving messages to the villagers on the loudspeaker system all day, instead of 5 min/day?