Added budget set aside to finish construction of 181 new Thai police stations

[Robby nz]

Is that a joke?

Whatever went wrong during the PTP "reign" is pinned on Yingluck personally. S. Thaugsuban signs a huge contract that ends up in a mess and the explanation is that he was wrongly advised, case dismissed?

No doubt, Yinguck must be seen as politically responsible for whatever her government did. If things went wrong, she obviously failed to keep her house in order. But the same applies to the government before the PTP took over. So, of course there will be questions and of course the minister who signed the contract must be asked about it (did he choose the right people to advise him?).

And regarding the extensions: looking around in Germany, I see quite a few projects, where companies ask for extensions for various reasons. It is not really unusual. The problem with projects of this extend is that once a certain point is reached and a lot of money has already been paid, there is no turning back (to abort would be more expensive than to continue) and a government is stuck with this company for better or for worse. There is plenty of room for speculation what the (real) reasons for these extensions were. If I was the owner of that company, I would probably claim that floods and riots prevented me from finishing in time. But again, room for speculation.

Actually Dept. PM Suthep signed the paper which assigned a budget to the Police department. The police department signed the contract. The budget and the work to be done was defined by a police committee. Under the government before (PPP that is) PM Somchai initiated the project. It was first split into a few regional projects/budgets, but the police committee advising on this project convinced the new chief Suthep that a single project/contract would be better. Lots of knowledgable Pol. Generals involved.

Don't ask me what the Rice Scam or Ms. Yingluck has to do with this apart from the deadline being extended a few times by her government and even additional payments were made to the company contracted. Of course if some want to tell me that that was also the fault of Suthep ... ...

Indeed Rubi.

However there needs to be complete clarification on this whole thing with a proper timeline as to just when things were done and who did them.

Things like : Who was on the police committee. The date of money being allocated, contract signed, work started, what has been paid out, what work finished.

And of course my unanswered question "Why did the Yingluck Govt extend the contract 3 times"

I note that Tarit at one time made a lot of noise about this and was going to add it to all the other charges against Suthep.

Then suddenly silence. Now why could that be ?

[Robby nz]

Wrong.

Suthep who was minister of police at the time tasked a committee of senior policeman to look into what was needed and arrange the work to be done in the best possible way.

That committee after due deliberation put a report, no doubt a hefty document as it covered a lot of work, on Sutheps desk at the completion of their investigations.

This report would have contained the recommendation that the work be given to a single company with the explanation as to why they came to that conclusion.

Whether he questioned them on this is anyones guess and if there is an inquiry that will no doubt come out, however he obviously trusted their decision and singed the contract that they put before him.

He could not be expected to go through the report and contract word for word himself for as with any organization the boss must trust those who he delegates to.

Sure he signed the contract but he was not the one who made the decision to have only one contractor.

Now answer : Why did the Yingluck government extend the contract 3 times ?

"Whether he questioned them on this is anyones guess and if there is an inquiry that will no doubt come out, however he obviously trusted their decision and singed the contract that they put before him."

"He could not be expected to go through the report and contract word for word himself for as with any organization the boss must trust those who he delegates to".

I'm sure you'll keep that in mind next time you comment on Yingluck Shinawatra and the Rice Subsidy Scheme

Completely different and I am sure you know that.

One is a contract for specific work while the other was an ongoing scheme.

Yingluck is being accused of negligence by failing to oversee the scheme.

She put herself in the position of chair of the committee that was supposed to keep control of the scheme and failed to attend the meetings.

While Suthep was the minister and not on the committee that had to investigate the specific contract, his only part was signing off on the contract.

As you know so much about your beloved PTP then you may be able to answer : Why did the Yingluck government extend the contract 3 times ?

and nowhere in that babble is there any justification for your comment "as with any organization the boss must trust those who he delegates to"

Then when the PT Govt took over it became the responsibility of the new minister of police to oversee the contract.

Who would that be ?

More negligence on the part of the PT Govt.

I see you still refuse to answer my question.

And incidentally, a piss poor reply, not even an off topic link, you must try to do better.

[chainarong]

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Where did the original money go?

Ask the contractor

[chainarong]

Giving each building a independent contractor is open to abuse ,there needs to be transparency on these contractors, a specialist group should be formed , to check on the contractors and the handling of the money, through a second independent non aligned department , like the treasury, with two different identities, handling the finance and the contractor applying in writing for loan advance and why, may , just may iron out some of the wrinkles.