-following Tepui scandal

The opposition APNU+AFC yesterday called for a probe of the national tender board and the procurement system in the wake of the scandalous award of the Belle Vue Pump Station contract to Tepui Inc.

In a statement, it said that the findings of the Public Procurement Com-mission (PPC) on the Tepui contract for the construction of the Belle Vue pump station have outraged Guyanese across the political spectrum.

“We, in the Opposition, firmly believe that the Tepui contract scandal is only the tip of a large iceberg.  Indeed, NPTAB was barefaced enough to inform the PPC that it awarded similar pump station contracts to others who also did not have the experience and prerequisites. We are convinced that breaches of the procurement laws and the award of contracts to the friends, families and favorites of the PPP government occur regularly and are in the tens of billions of dollars.