After the general manager (e) of the Municipal Companies of Cali (Emcali), Fulvio Leonardo Soto, demanded the resignation of the directors involved in the controversial contract with cost overruns between Emcali and the Temporary Union, AMI, three more directors resigned at your expense.
RCN World learned that the officials who retired from office are Jorge Saldarriaga, enterprise Sourcing Manager, Diane Urego, legal director and Arthur Fernandez, commercial manager.
It should be noted that the scandal was once known by a contract with cost overruns that contemplated acquiring televisions for more than $43 million pesos, ergonomic chairs for $17 million and screens for $700 million, whose increase, according to commercial values of the market it is up to a thousand percent, The first resignations began.
The first to withdraw from his post, hours after the scandal, was Juan Diego Flórez, who was the general manager of Emcali and three days later Marine of the Uribe River, who was he energy manager.
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Sintraemcali protest
Faced with this situation members of the Board of Directors of the Emcali Workers Union, Sintraemcali, They arrived at the facilities of the general management and carried out a permanent assembly until their main demands are met.
Among the requests, sent through a communication, The union demands the resignation of the directors of municipal companies and of the middle managers. In addition, it requests that a selection process be opened through a merit contest to elect both the general manager of Emcali, as well as other management positions.
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Findings of the Attorney
From Cali, the delegate attorney for the surveillance of the public administration, Gabriel del Toro, assured that Between 2020 and 2022, more than 54 thousand contracts were made directly, which is equivalent to 57% of the total of the agreements concluded.
De Toro assured that his role is preventive and stressed that present the final report to the Mayor’s Office of Cali and will set up a follow-up table, in order to prevent these irregularities from occurring and that the explanations of the case be given.
Finally, the disciplinary body assured that in the year 2021, 78% of agreements carried out by the district administration they went directly, worth $1.5 billion.
