The Municipal Comptroller’s Office of Ibagué is one of the local entities with the most discreet work. His management goes unnoticed among Ibaguera public opinion. There is little news that citizens receive about the work of the control entity.
However, Comptroller Edna Margarita Murcia spends a large amount of money each year on travel expenses and personal expenses to attend all kinds of events with public money. Total, Since he began his administration in 2022, he has spent around $160 million on travel expenses.
Through a right of petition, El Cronista.co was able to establish what Murcia Mejía spent each year:
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2022: $49,723,550
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2023: $65,880,399
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2024: $45,175,568
It is striking that so far this year the comptroller has already spent more than in all of 2022 and still has the second semester left. Therefore, this year it could even exceed what was spent in 2023, when it reached a very high figure in travel expenses.
Among the controller’s favorite destinations are event launches, conferences and institutional summits. Events about which information could be obtained unofficially.
However, the entity’s Legal Secretariat hid El Cronista.co the specific destinations and the justification of such onerous expenses. In the response to the right to petition he omitted the explanations requested from the comptroller.
Now, the travel expenses and personal expenses of the comptroller have nothing to do with her salary, which is $18,214,842 monthly, of which you do not have to allocate a single peso for your constant trips.
Meanwhile, Ibaguereños know little about the work and results of the Municipal Comptroller’s Office. Recently, citizens remembered the comptroller for the luxurious private party she shared with Mayor Johana Aranda and members of her cabinet, over whom she should exercise administrative control.
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