{"id":33767,"date":"2024-04-18T23:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=33767"},"modified":"2024-04-18T18:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:06:55","slug":"feud-between-critic-mohamed-could-spell-end-of-controversial-pump-station-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/feud-between-critic-mohamed-could-spell-end-of-controversial-pump-station-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Feud between `Critic\u2019, Mohamed could spell end of controversial pump station contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guyana<\/p>\n

A feud between social media personality, Mikhail Rodrigues and businessman, Azruddin Mohamed over finances could bring an end to the controversial award of the $865m Belle Vue pump station which had come under attack by opposition MPs.<\/p>\n

On social media yesterday, Mohamed disclosed that the contract of the Tepui Group Inc to build a wharf at Lot 49 Parker Street, Providence, East Bank Demerara was terminated as a result of $60 million being owed to him by Rodrigues also known as\u00a0 \u201cGuyanese Critic\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Tepui Group, in which Rodrigues is a principal,\u00a0 had been awarded the massive contract by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the Belle Vue pump station despite complaints that it was unqualified and did not have the wherewithal for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohamed related to the Sunday Stabroek that Rodrigues had borrowed money from him for the construction of the wharf but never paid him back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe owes me sixty million Guyana dollars, I lend him money so that he\u00a0 can build this wharf at Providence on the East Bank and up to now he cannot account for the sixty million dollars which is loaned him\u201d, Mohamed related.<\/p>\n

The businessman said that the social media commentator had also purchased an excavator from his company Mohamed\u2019s Enterprise in the year 2022 which was eventually \u201cconfiscated\u201d as a result of Rodrigues failing to pay the full amount for the machinery.<\/p>\n

Mohamed also noted that Rodrigues has an outstanding loan of $20 million to purchase equipment for a business venture.<\/p>\n

The businessman said that he would be taking legal action against Rodrigues.<\/p>\n

Rodrigues yesterday morning during his programme on social media admitted that he indeed purchased an excavator from the Mohameds but decided to return it after his friendship with the family became toxic.<\/p>\n

He said that he decided to return the excavator to the businessman as he \u201cwanted nothing to do with him\u201d.<\/p>\n

As a result of cutting ties with the businessman, Rodrigues said that he took it upon himself to purchase new equipment to commence works at the wharf and pump station.<\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of the debt being owed to the Mohamed family, by Rodrigues, the Sunday Stabroek learnt that works on the Belle Vue Pump station couldn\u2019t commence as Tepui doesn\u2019t have the requisite finance and contracting experience to conduct such works.<\/p>\n

APNU+AFC Members of Parliament Ganesh Mahipaul and David Patterson have argued for months that the contract awardee did not meet the standard evaluation criteria for bidders.<\/p>\n

Patterson when contacted yesterday said that now that the truth has been revealed on social media that the Tepui Group Inc. was in no financial position to conduct works on the pump station and was inexperienced as it relates to contracting services, the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) should now re-examine the matter as it relates to the $865 million contract awarded by the NPTAB to the said company.<\/p>\n

The former Minister of Public Works\u00a0 had strongly criticized the PPC over what he sees as its inaction over the investigation into the award of a pump station contract to Tepui.<\/p>\n

He had said for months that the contract did not meet the requirement for the award as the company was formed in August 2022.<\/p>\n

Since October last year, the Alliance For Change Member has been pressing the PPC to probe the matter.<\/p>\n

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Guyana A feud between social media personality, Mikhail Rodrigues and businessman, Azruddin Mohamed over finances could bring an end to the controversial award of the $865m Belle Vue pump station…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":33768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[250],"tags":[244,116],"class_list":["post-33767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-electricity-energy","tag-guyana"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pexels-introspectivedsgn-9216590-scaled-e1713481531966.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-8MD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33040,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/agri-minister-says-works-underway-on-pump-station-controversially-awarded-to-tepui\/","url_meta":{"origin":33767,"position":0},"title":"Agri Minister says works underway on pump station controversially awarded to Tepui","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"March 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana \u2013 despite serious complaint before procurement commission Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday announced that works had started on January 30th on the Belle Vue Pump station controversially awarded to the company, Tepui despite the fact that serious complaints have been made about its ineligibility for the task. 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