MEPA audit office needs to be rebuilt - MLP

Steve Borg

Jul 21st 2008, 16:32

@P. Muscat

What are you sighing for? The MEPA audit officer, Prof. Joe Falzon, has been through some tantrums that would have been more likely to have occurred in Zimbabwe than a European Union member state. When his office was investigating the procedures adhered to during the application for the demolition and expansion of the Sant Antnin Waste Plant, he had his investigating officer Carmel Cacopardo facing obstacles higher than Mount Ararat, and later on his own secretary withdrawn from clerical duties.

The lack of credibility that MEPA has with the Maltese people (vide Qui Si Sana, Mistra Village re-development and soon the Gozo Airstrip development that shall in the next weeks awaken like the phoenix) is substainiated by the evident level of discouragement meted out on the Auditor's Office in order to hinder an efficient and fair processing leading to the publication of reports that are, after all, an intrinsic base for safeguarding transparent planning decisions.

So do you have an alternative to all this? If so, please spell it out so the MEPA audit office take note.

M. Schembri

Jul 21st 2008, 16:17

@P. Muscat - the answer is in the last sentence mate -TOOLS such as manpower as in Perit Cacopardo - such as an efficient and effective internal audit system.

P Muscat

Jul 21st 2008, 15:58

An incisive, hard hitting assessment of the current situation. Concrete proposals please Mr Galdes! I too would like to rebuild my home.......sigh!