{"id":8110,"date":"2019-03-01T07:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=8110"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:25:48","slug":"moonilal-bobol-in-100m-cctv-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/moonilal-bobol-in-100m-cctv-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonilal: Bobol in $100M CCTV system"},"content":{"rendered":"

OROPOUCHE East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has alleged a case of bid-rigging in the upgrade of the country\u2019s $100M CCTV camera security-system, speaking today in the Lower House debate on a bill to vary the Budget.<\/p>\n

Alleging that an extension had been made to the period to submit tenders, so as to facilitate a late bid by a British company, Moonilal said, \u201cI ask the Government to investigate this matter urgently.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the whole contract should be cancelled and said that if Minister of National Security Stuart Young is now in England he could take the opportunity to personally investigate.<\/p>\n

Saying he was already before the House Privileges Committee, Moonilal quipped that because of that, he would not cast any aspersions on any MP.<\/p>\n

However, he said an offence of bid-rigging is committed if any bidders are communicated with before all bids are open, and that to re-issue a bid is fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all tainted. You can\u2019t renew it.\u201d<\/p>\n

To trace the turn of events, Moonilal quoted Minister of National Security Stuart Young who last Monday told the House Standing Finance Committee the Government had met a very costly contract for CCTV that they had then put onto a month by month contract.<\/p>\n

He said the former Manning administration had agreed to 389 cameras at $10,000 each per month plus VAT to be leased from TSTT. The People\u2019s Partnership put 500 more cameras and set up four regional centres. \u201cWe ordered another 800 cameras and the price went up to $12,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moonilal said Young had tried to make it sound like corruption by the past government.<\/p>\n

He related the former government had paid monthly fees for a CCTV system run by TSTT using Israeli cameras.<\/p>\n

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OROPOUCHE East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has alleged a case of bid-rigging in the upgrade of the country\u2019s $100M CCTV camera security-system, speaking today in the Lower House debate 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