“Intelligent Bucaramanga?”, is the question that hundreds of inhabitants of the Santander capital ask daily, due to the failures that have been registered in the public lighting and, this Wednesday, it became a debate between the mayor Juan Carlos Cárdenas and the senator Rodolfo Hernandez.
This scuffle arose after Hernández accused Cárdenas of “stealing” the money from the municipality in the contract for the city’s luminaries, through the failed Telemanagement project worth $14,689 million.
“Here is the filing of the record that I put in the secretariat of the Senate of the Republic, of the robbery that Juan Carlos Cárdenas is doing in Bucaramanga with street lighting. Let’s see if he continues with the same thing! ”, The senator pointed out on his Twitter account.
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In this document filed by Hernández, he would point out that the mayor of Bucaramanga would be incurring in “false public document, of which even one of the subscribers of the original document could attest”.
“It is important to note that there is no evidence of compliance with all of the requirements of the technical sheet of negotiation”quotes the document presented by the senator.
Faced with this accusation, the president of the bumangueses responded through his Twitter account that senator Rodolfo Hernández would have spent more than $24,000 million in the purchase of more than 30,000 luminaires that owed 10 years.
These figures are delivered taking into account the report of the auditing HRC Engineers. Nevertheless, Nearly 10,000 lights stopped working in just 2 years.
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“In the contract to buy them, companies with extensive global experience such as Roy Alpha, Phillips and Schréder were disqualified, for allegedly “not meeting the requirements”. These same companies denounced the direction of the contract, but still nothing happened,” the president wrote.
Also, the mayor explained that the installation contract not handled properly. “He obtained all the government public lighting inspection contracts from him, adding up to more than $12 billion pesos, paid with the money of all Bumangueses and it is the company that today says: telemanagement does not work”, the mayor pointed out.
It should be noted that these three phases in the Telemanagement project They would have an investment amounting to $50,000 million.
