The warning was issued by Comptroller Felipe Cordoba in the middle of the EL TIEMPO forum on electoral guarantees.
“Atypical cases have been evidenced, such as that of two contracts that add up to more than $400 billion, which were awarded to the same contractor and were approved on the SECOP II platform on November 13, 2021, the date on which the Law of Guarantees in the territorial order began,” the Comptroller said in the forum.
(You may be interested in: Video: Judge cried at Nickol Valentina’s murder hearing)
The contract referred to in the one signed between the Mayor’s Office of Floridablanca and the Floridablanca Real Estate Bank for $478,999,170,137.29, to develop an environmentally sustainable strategy for the modernization, expansion, administration, operation and maintenance of the public lighting system of Floridablanca.
This fact was heavily criticized by the former mayor of Floridablanca, Héctor Mantilla.
“When I was in front of the Floridablanca mayor’s office, I never saw the need to do what Miguel (current mayor) is doing today, threatens the financial stability of the municipality and the social interests of Floridians when there are needs that should be taken care of, such as security and roads,” says the former president.
And he adds that: “Floridablanca went into a setback and we see how for this mayor his thinking is completely distant from the needs of the citizens.”
For his part, the director of the Machinery Bank indicated that “this is an inter-administrative agreement between the municipality and the Bank, which is a municipal public entity that must carry out the processes under the law (…)”, said Julio González, director of Bank.
The director argued that there were delays in the signing due to external factors.
BUCARAMANGA
