$688M infrastructure contract awarded to Tepui stalled

– Mahipaul urges CH&PA to publicise terms

Opposition Parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul yesterday called on the Ministry of Housing and Water’s Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to make public the terms of the $688 million contract awarded last year March to controversial company Tepui Inc – for which Mikhail ‘Guyanese Critic’ Rodrigues is a principal.

Mahipaul said that he has learned from sources that Tepui was given $120 million for mobilisation on the project which is for infrastructural development work at Good Hope. However, he said, the work was yet to begin and bemoaned the burden on taxpayers and house allottees of the area. He also wants the CH&PA to say what action will be taken if the company fails to meet the contractual agreement.

“CH&PA has this project which was divided into lots and Lot 5 was awarded to Tepui… for the internal roads, culverts, drainage systems etcetera. All the other lots are showing great progress, but at that particular lot, nothing has happened as yet, save and except the removal of vegetation,” Mahipaul lamented.