In the midst of the scandal over the alleged diversion of money from the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD), President Gustavo Petro announced that transfers destined to two autonomous corporations and a municipality of Santander, Girón, will be suspended.
“All transfers pre-established by the UNGRD to Corpourabá, Corantioquia and the municipality of Girón are suspended. We will seek to ensure that these monies reach the disaster areas,” the president announced in a rather brief trill.
President Petro did not give further reasons for this decision. However, the announcement comes a day after the statements of Sneyder Pinilla, former deputy director of the UNGRD, were known. in which he assures that the cost overruns on the La Guajira tank trucks were supposedly used to pay the presidents of Congress, Iván Name and Andrés Calle, to guarantee the processing of the reforms.
To this we must add that precisely the area of action of Corpourabá and Corantioquia is the department of Antioquia, a region from which Olmedo López, former director of the UNGRD, who left in the middle of the scandal over possible cost overruns in the tank trucks to attend to the emergency, is from. water in La Guajira.
After the scandal broke out over the alleged delivery of money from the UNGRD to the presidents of Congress, Gustavo Petro has tried to disassociate himself from the scandal. He did so in his speeches, in which he indicated that those who committed acts of alleged corruption should step aside from their government, followed by the announcement of the departures of councilors Sandra Ortíz (Regions) and Andrés Idárraga (Transparency).
Likewise, in a trill he made direct reference to the scandal. He marginalized himself from this, but accepted political responsibility for the arrival of Olmedo López to his government. “I am responsible for the appointment of Olmedo, in whom I believed as a leader of the Antioquia left. What I see is an illegal transfer of money that went to the victims of tragedies towards electoral campaigns adverse to my government,” said Petro, who warned that the linked will leave their government.
