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Labour insists George Pullicino should hand in resignation
Resources minister George Pullicino must resign over WasteServ’s widespread mismanagement, Labour insists.
7 December 2012, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
Minister George Pullicino (right) with WasteServ chairman Ben Farrugia.
Labour MP Leo Brincat has insisted that resources minister George Pullicino shoulder responsibility for shortcomings at the national waste management agency WasteServ and resign.
Following the Opposition's initial calls for his resignation, Pullicino chose to attack Labour's credibility in the waste management sector without making direct reference to the calls for his resignation.
"The minister's statement strengthens our conviction that Pullicino must hand in his resignation," Brincat said.
Labour insisted that resources minister George Pullicino's position is untenable following the revelations of widespread financial and technical mismanagement at WasteServ.
"Resources minister George Pullicino knows he cannot justify the €1 million contract signed by WasteServ increasing to €29 million over a span of four years," the Labour MP said.
The MP added that Wasteserv did not attain the approval of the contract's extension and changes from the Ministry of Finance as was shown in the Auditor General's Annual Audit Report for 2011.
"The Finance ministry was not aware of the substantial changes, including the period of extension, the value or the total number of persons to be employed," Brincat said.
"The Minister [Pullicino] must realise that Labour was only reacting to the strongly worded statements in the Auditor General's report, who has also decided to carry out further investigations on WasteServ's financial management, especially its capital and recurrent expenditure," the MP added.
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Resign!! What!! And have all those perks, remuneration and what nots go up in a flurry of thick black smoke before time. Not on your life mate! Not until mid August 2013, if God is still on the side of the PN! Didn't we vote against divorce? So HE owns us one! What's the hurry to meet the WhistleBlowers Act?
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No need for Pullicino to resign... the people of this country will throw him out of office.
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Georgie has a big appetite. We have just stumbled on his through - all 29 Million euro of it.
Well the role of Goring is taken by RCC in the Gonz regime. Maybe he could play the role of Dumbo in some Disney animation instead!
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The basic trouble is that these people are too freakin' stupid even knowing how to resign.
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Perhaps it is the Auditor that should resign! Kemm sirna sbieh min jaf jarana. Wara 25 sena kulhadd (anke kieku ikollok l-angli) jibda jahseb lijista jaghmel li jrid ghax il-Gvern tieghu!
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Perhaps it is the Auditor that should resign! Kemm sirna sbieh min jaf jarana. Wara 25 sena kulhadd (anke kieku ikollok l-angli) jibda jahseb lijista jaghmel li jrid ghax il-Gvern tieghu!
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I think it is about time that all ministers resign!
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It's useless telling a Gonzipn Minister or a PN member of parliament to resign for the simple reason that they do NOT know what the word means!! especially now that their hang to power venture is fast nearing to an end!!!
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If EU funds are involved and the tendering process was not handled in accordance with EU procurement regulations, which today are part of our legislation, we risk losing out on EU financing. It seems we are already way back in making use of all the EU funds at our disposal.
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I think it is about time that all ministers resign!
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It's not Minister Pullicino only that should resign, but: (1) the whole Wasteserv management who throw our money down the drain; and (2) the Ministry of Finance officials who continued to approve Wasteserv's payments in respect of the contract in question. If Finance did not provide the funds, where on earth can Wasteserv have obtained all that money?
