The Permanent Commission approved a request for a report so that the 17 governorates of the country render accounts on the use of emergency resources. This is about US$ 2 million that each institution received during 2020 and 2021.
Édgar Acosta, Liberal deputy and one of the promoters, pointed out that the objective is to know exactly how the US$ 2 million received by each of the 17 governorates during 2020 and 2021 to combat Covid-19 were spent.
“Without discrimination of political parties, we want to know to whom they gave the resources they bought, what services they provided so as not to put everyone in the same bag. It may be unfair that we accuse all governments of stealing,” he said.
The legislator said that with this the citizens will be able to know how these resources were used.
“The answers they give us will be made public through the press so that citizens know how that money was used,” he said.
Teófilo Espínola and Kattya González were the other signatories of the request. The document was approved last Wednesday of January, so the governorates have 15 days to deliver the reports and supporting documents (until Wednesday the 19th).
Despite the deadline, Acosta urges the immediate delivery of the documents, since it is public information, so they must already be available to facilitate.
NEGATIVE
In the event that any of the governorates refuses to provide the reports, Acosta warned that they will send the list of those who did not comply with the request. He stressed that this will show that they have mishandled the resources.
“They are political actors who must be in contact with their citizens. The political damage if they do not respond will be very important”, he concluded.
CONTEXT
On November 1, Hugo Javier González, governor of Central (ANR), was charged by the Public Ministry for the alleged embezzlement of those resources from the emergency law. It is G. 5,100 million (of the G. 6,400 million that it received as emergency resources during 2020).
The sum was given to the Comprehensive Center for Professional Support Foundation (CIAP) to carry out public works. What is striking is that the works only appeared several weeks after the accusation.
Something similar happened in December with César “Tigre” Ramírez, governor of Canindeyú. The former soccer player and current Colorado Chartist politician is accused of disbursing G. 5,100 million to the NGO Asociación Pro Desarrollo del Norte to carry out public works.
In this case, what is striking is that said entity was barely founded six months earlier. However, it was benefited with a millionaire contract.
