The former director of the National Unit for Risk and Disaster Management Olmedo López is one of the main former officials of Gustavo Petro’s Government accused of the corruption scandal in the purchase of tank trucks to supply water in La Guajira.
As will be remembered, in this case there was, in addition to corruption, payment of bribes and high-profile officials would be involved. In it, 40 automatic double-truck tank trucks were purchased to supply 16,000 liters of water to the department. However, these never served this sector of the country and it was known that they were acquired with cost overruns of $20,000 million.
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This is just one of the scandals surrounding the current Government, since previously the scandal of Nicolás Petro Burgos, son of President Petro, who accepted having accepted illegal money for his father’s presidential campaign was also known. Another was that of the current director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency, Laura Sarabia, who would have abused her power by taking her former nanny Marelbys Meza to a polygraph.
Colombians do not forget these events and that is why different sectors are demanding clarity in these and all cases of corruption. For example, through tell the country the whole truth and objectively investigate and judge all cases of corruption of which there is news.
“Let them tell the country not only what has happened to the resources of Colombians, but also tell them the intentions behind each other. How are they negotiated? What has been negotiated? Who are the brains behind all the operations? “Who gave the order for one thing or another to happen?” questioned the union leader.
In passing, he stated that it is necessary to tell the country if these are isolated events or large corruption schemes, which tell what the consequences of the corrupt events have been, for example, in the process of laws, in more contracts or in elections.
Likewise, he asserted that at this point it seems that we are not talking about isolated events and corrupt individuals. So what If there are larger organizations and plans, Colombia should know about it.
“There are many of us who feel that these are much more than isolated events. I hope we are wrong,” concluded the president of Andi and the Guild Council, Bruce Mac Master.
He added that the fight against corruption must undoubtedly be a national cause, since this evil corrodes the deepest foundations of society and must be ended. He pointed out that the practices that have been present for years and that in recent months have shown that they are far from being banished must be condemned by the entire society.
“Corruption also used as a political strategy to influence the most important decisions of society and public policy is a great aggression against democracy and citizenship,” said Bruce Mac Master.
Likewise, another who referred to these events was the former Minister of Finance Juan Camilo Restrepo. He gave his opinion through process and approve President Petro’s social reforms.
He noted that the “Sneyder list” is probably ““the most nauseating episode of political corruption that the country has witnessed in many years.” According to him, justice will have to say – and hopefully soon – the last word.
“For the moment, a gigantic toxic cloud of corruption remains floating in the air with which it seems that they sought to buy the parliamentary votes necessary to approve – not only with clumsy forceps politicians and sour jam – the reforms presented by the Petro Government (which was what some of us naively believed was happening),” he pointed out.
He stressed that “Now the signs point towards a nauseating operation of greater significance with public money aimed at buying the conscience of parliamentarians and the presidents of the two chambers.”
He argued that from the political point of view – since from the criminal angle those who have the last word are the Prosecutor’s Office, the judges and the other control entities – it is clear that the reforms presented by the Petro Government have been left with a broken wing and lost all legitimacy from this moment, and this “embarrassing” episode of the La Guajira tank cars risks burying them definitively.
For this reason, he insisted that the famous “soft coup” that the House of Nariño had talked so much about these days was the result of Sneyder Pinilla’s explosive statements this week.
“From now on, on each and every one of the laws and bills that contain reforms to health, pensions, and labor legislation, among others, the justified suspicion remains that they were purchased with simoniac pacts” , he pointed out.
And he ended by saying that “The ‘Sneyder list’ has ended up giving the feared ‘soft blow’ to the Petro Government.”
