June 16, 20214 yr Thailand’s netizens are sharing images of “fancy” lamp posts, with Thai sculptures on the top, in many rural areas. One of them is in Nakhon Si Thammarat and has led to a corruption probe by local authorities, according to the provincial anti-corruption agency. Nakhon Si Thammarat province procured 108 lamp posts, for Karom Road in Pho-Sadet sub-district, with a budget of 10 million baht, as earlier reported by Thai PBS’s Thai-language service. The winning bidder bid an average of over 92,000 Baht per post, a price point which the public has found unreasonable. The same project also covered 112 new street signs along one road in town, with a budget of over 2 million baht. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/possible-corruption-in-provincial-lamp-post-procurements/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-06-16 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates
June 16, 20214 yr Popular Post Possible corruption in Thailand.... Nooooooooooo !!! never !!!! I would be surprised if there were a single facet of any decision in Thailand involving development, procurement or pretty much any decision at all which did not involve graft at some level..... Corruption is so endemic throughout every single facet of society here that it is the norm. People are considered idiots if in a position of decision making power and they are not corrupt.
June 16, 20214 yr Popular Post Possible corruption at 92k Bart's per post .. I am shaken to the core at the very suggestion .. personally I'd have given them a final coat of gold glitter paint and rounded it up to 95 .. and given it can be a perilous occupation being a powepole in Thailand expect some to get taken out by Hiso's in barrel rolling Merc's or Porsches ..
June 16, 20214 yr Popular Post OK, so which family owns the one lamppost concession monopoly? And people thought the Shinawatras were too corrupt. Mere children compared to the junta.
June 16, 20214 yr some of those projects run into bln bht. Is it Prayuth's brother responsible for it?
June 16, 20214 yr I do not know about the lamp posts, but the corruption that go's on in the roads that the lamp posts sit on ,has I think got worse over the past few years, road re laid 6 months ago near me ,has more crack in it than on my old grans fruit cake and that is not the only one . This junta in my area has done a lot to the rural road system ,but a lot will be back to what they were before in a few years time.
June 17, 20214 yr 14 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Nakhon Si Thammarat province procured 108 lamp posts, for Karom Road in Pho-Sadet sub-district, with a budget of 10 million baht, as earlier reported by Thai PBS’s Thai-language service. The winning bidder bid an average of over 92,000 Baht per post, a price point which the public has found unreasonable. The same project also covered 112 new street signs along one road in town, with a budget of over 2 million baht. Someone's doing very nicely out of all this.
June 17, 20214 yr I wondered about this when I saw the fancy dolphin ones springing up all around Pattaya..... one just knows they were a little more expensive than they should have been! Wonder if there is any connection to the companies supplying them elsewhere. Ah well, they won't get damaged by that other great monetary cash cow, flooding alleviation works.
June 17, 20214 yr Follow the money, until someone high up tells you to stop. Am sensing someone on an MP's staff slipped something into a budget bill re: cultural/civic improvements, with budget that had to be spent by fiscal year end, and then recommended a specific supplier. Kick-backs for all, crappy fixtures for the masses. Yippee.
June 17, 20214 yr This is news? I first heard Thais talking about corruption in the procurement of locally-themed fancy lampposts over 20 years ago...
June 17, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, khunjeff said: This is news? I first heard Thais talking about corruption in the procurement of locally-themed fancy lampposts over 20 years ago... Well not all of us read twenty-year old newspapers. But thanks for that update, and now lets go to the weather report from 1988.
June 17, 20214 yr My personal favorite is U-turn bridges over the railroad tracks in every two samlaw village while the main road gets a traffic light! Literally 30 people and a heard of cows in our village and we get a u-turn bridge nearly the size of the Bangkok toll way! A few hundred million baht well spent. We can use it to safely get the cattle to the other side of the tracks!????
June 17, 20214 yr 9 minutes ago, mtls2005 said: Mukdahan... Well decorated track, just waiting on the next millions to be allocated for widening to a single lane.
June 17, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: Mukdahan... In a country where some struggle for their daily survival. Rotten to the bone. Seen similar examples on the net. And they are everywhere. In March I drove on Pattaya eastside along some less than unimportant road along some fields with such kitsch.
June 17, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: Mukdahan... By the look of the 'fluid' in the glass containers, that's a disguised local moonshine distillery lol
June 17, 20214 yr A total misunderstanding, 92000 baht a post is a absolute bargain, long live the brown envelope.
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