PL asks for results of due diligence on power station extension

The government should say whether due diligence has been carried out on submissions made by BWSC – the company which has won the tender for the extension of the power station, to Enemalta and the Contracts Department, Labour spokesman Charles Mangion said.

He asked for the publication of such investigations if these were carried out and who took the decision not to hold them if they were not.

In a statement, Dr Mangion said that in spite of the Auditor General’s report on the extension, which condemned the way the tender was awarded and made recommendations of how similar processes should be carried out, the government was still lost in the confusion it had been caught in.

It was now clear why the government had accepted not to publish the contract and why the company did not want it to be published in full.

The BWSC, Dr Mangion said, did not want the sub-contractors list to be known. Such a restriction created suspicions and it had now emerged that some of them were involved in serious cases of corruption.

BWSC kept this under wraps with a false declaration during the tendering process, Dr Mangion said.