As a result of the visit that the Comptroller of the Republic, Carlos Mario Zuluaga Pardo, makes to Ibagué this Tuesday, the Tolima oversight bodies agree on a specific point: that there be a statement on the different complaints that have been raised before this control entity and even to the So far there have been no responses.
Works that have become white elephants, others with unjustified cost overruns and poor quality, and some with worrying delays. This is the list of the oversight offices.
Ibagué sports venues
After the looting of resources for the construction of the city’s sports venues and the demolition of the existing ones, new contracts were made, in which the citizen oversight bodies have been demonstrating enormous cost overruns, poor quality in the works carried out, extensions and additions. derived from poor designs and rigged contracting. What has the Comptroller’s Office done in this regard and when will citizens be informed about this management? ask the oversight bodies.
Drinking water and basic sanitation in Ibagué
Ibagué is experiencing a profound crisis in terms of drinking water and basic sanitation, deepened by an urban development lacking planning and driven by the allocation of subsidies for the acquisition of popular housing, which, in the words of the Constitutional Court, has led to housing is being delivered that does not meet the conditions of dignity because it lacks public services, regarding which the Comptroller’s Office has said it lacks competence, because citizens are responsible for applying subsidies in housing projects that do not comply with these prerogatives. (public services): So builders can cheat buyers with these subsidies and the Comptroller’s Office does nothing about it? supervisors like VAPI ask.
Furthermore, they affirm that in other aspects, subsidies are being recognized for the sewage service financed with the SGP, to institutional and community providers that do not provide the service, against which the Comptroller’s Office does not express itself; What is the reason for this silence?
Drinking water and basic sanitation Tolima
Many investments in drinking water and basic sanitation in several municipalities of the department (Armero, Villarrica, Villahermosa, Rovira, among several others), They are turned into failed investments For several years, however, the Comptroller General has not commented on such a delicate situation; What is the reason for this silence?
Educational Institutions (FFIE Ibagué Schools)
In the city, for more than 6 years, most of the educational infrastructure was demolished by FFIE contractors, with the promise of its recovery with modern infrastructure, which turned out to be not true, and in addition, there were costs and additions with which non-compliance and incompetence were rewarded, with which the young and child population has been subjected to regrettable conditions that violate their fundamental rights, in the face of which, citizens demand not only an immediate solution, but also a punishment for those responsible for this painful situation. What is the Comptroller’s Office doing to give citizens a response without further delay?
60 Ibagué Street Bridge
With resources from the Comptroller General’s Office, in a rigged and completely obscure manner, the work called “60 bridge” was contracted in Ibagué, about which absolutely all public opinion knew that it lacked credible designs and real viability, which This led to the fact that after all the deadlines had expired, this work lacked progress, but the resources delivered as an advance were found missing in a tangle of triangulations. When is the Comptroller’s Office going to rule on this matter?
Complaints Mayor/Municipal Comptroller
There are multiple and serious complaints of collusion between the Municipal Comptroller’s Office and the municipal administration of Ibagué, of exorbitant enrichments of public officials manifested in ostentatious mansions and luxuries. When will the Comptroller General use its preferential control function?
Tax Evasion and Resource Appropriation Galilea Forest (Villarrica)
It is public knowledge that with the environmental resources of the Galilea Forest, operations were carried out to sell environmental services, which benefited that population almost in no way and that, with the participation of public entities such as the University of Tolima, were apparently used to evade tax responsibilities. When will there be a statement on the matter from the Comptroller General’s Office?
Bridges
There have long been known fully documented complaints about the occurrence of multimillion-dollar cost overruns in the construction of the Gualanday bridges (between Coello and Gualanday) and El Totumo bridge in Ibagué, despite which, citizens are not aware of any pronouncement on the matter from the Comptroller General’s Office, which is its jurisdiction.
