Mukdahan anti-corruption watchdog has reservations over budget to repair “fancy” lamp posts and weir

[webfact]

 

The Mukdahan provincial office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has expressed reservations over a provincial civil works and town planning officeproposal to secure 40-million baht to repair damaged “fancy”lamp posts, a weir and a wind-powered water storage tank in the municipal area.

 

Head of the provincial NACC office, Anucha Poengboonsri, and director of the civil works and town planning office, Vinai Seethiangtham, visited the site of the damaged facilities, close to Sila Wiwek monastery, on Thursday for a field inspection,following call by civil society for a reinvestigation of the projects.

 

Anucha told the media during the trip that, before additional budget can be granted, the civil works and town planning office must make sure that the projects will be accepted by the Muang district municipality, after it has completed the repair work, and that the municipality will take care of future maintenance.

 

Keep up to date with all things Thailand - Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/mukdahan-anti-corruption-watchdog-has-reservations-over-budget-to-repair-fancy-lamp-posts-and-weir/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-03-28

 

- Aetna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

- Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

[smedly]

well it's not hard to figure out that someone made money out of this - just like vaccines - subs - F35's and pretty much every budget that gets through the books ------------oh what books 

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

40-million baht to repair damaged “fancy”lamp posts

Daft money - probably build an entire mall for that - with new fancy new lamp posts !

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

town planning officeproposal to secure 40-million baht to repair damaged “fancy”lamp posts, a weir and a wind-powered water storage tank in the municipal area.

Nice try.

[brianthainess]

Get  independent engineers to access the repair costs. 

[digger70]

Why not replace the FANCY ones and put Normal ones in there ? then one knows where the money goes.

I don't know but it maybe cheaper than the 40 Mill Rip off pocket money.