webfact Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Aswin rejects embossed polo shirts for BMA officials By The Nation BANGKOK GOVERNOR Pol General Aswin Kwanmuang BANGKOK GOVERNOR Pol General Aswin Kwanmuang has scrapped a proposal for the city to buy 200,000 polo shirts with an embossed emblem at the price of Bt248 apiece. “No. I have not approved it,” Aswin said yesterday. “As soon as I saw the price in the proposal, I rejected it. “Had it been around Bt170 or Bt180, I might have agreed to consider it and looked into the detail. But after I saw the price, I flatly said ‘no’. So, I didn’t even know the details yet,” Aswin said. He spoke up after some reports suggested that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) was planning to spend Bt50.8 million on the polo shirts through special means. Aswin said he immediately made the decision to turn down the proposal on Monday. He said his disapproval had nothing to do with Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha’s complaints that his name should have not been used for any project the BMA was going to approve. The Isra News Agency reported recently that the BMA’s Finance Department was preparing the purchase polo shirts with an embossed emblem for officials because Prayut questioned, during his work trip to a flood-hit area on May 29, why BMA officials’ outfits did not show the emblem of their agency. Prayut later said he did not remember making such a comment. Isra News Agency yesterday quoted Yuthapan Meechai, secretary to the Bangkok governor, as saying that a BMA official might have misinterpreted Prayut’s words and caused a misunderstanding. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30320006 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-07-06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiwrath Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 1 hour ago, webfact said: Had it been around Bt170 or Bt180, I might have agreed to consider it Fakes, or copies, seems the way to go ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 50 Million for shirts??.....sounds as though the deal was close to being exposed....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Well, he is on the new Police Reform committee that's supposed to end corruption, so he is preempting a potential scandal at city hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 I guess he thought with that price his cut should have been a little bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobredin Ghusputin Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Shirts made from unused sandbags would be much cheaper as well as environmentally friendly. Embossed emblems could be made of cellulose recovered from cigarette butts collected from Sukhumvit where tourists were fined 2000 baht. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFishman1 Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Someone is crying now no money to make on T Shirts TIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Better to buy the cheap shirts that last 1 year, instead of buying quality shirts that last 5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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