The counselor of the Mixed Group in the Insular Cabildo of Lanzarote, Óscar Noda, denounces once again the indolence and apathy with which the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, treats many of the important things for the island of Lanzarote.
“Now are added,” comments Óscar Noda, “the bad practices and the obscurantism with which he is trying to hide from the citizenry, from the users and their families, a matter of absolute importance such as everything that happened at the Amavir Senior Residence in Tías. As data of greater gravity appear, the attempt by Oswaldo Betancort to cover up, once again, his shame and the more than apparent desire to cover up the matter as soon as possible, as they showed when in the last plenary session they rejected my proposal to create an investigative commission that helps us clarify what happened and, most importantly, prevent it from happening again.”
“This week, the news of the so-called “Senior’s Card” has been launched with great fanfare with the sole and regrettable objective of diverting attention from what is truly important for the seniors of Lanzarote, what happened in Tías while the president of the Cabildo wants to look and wants us to look the other way. But it is no longer the opposition, which is within its rights to ask for explanations from a suddenly mute Oswaldo Betancort or the families of the seniors affected by everything that happened in that residence. Now it is the Ombudsman, who criticizes the president for the lack of responses, to the greater shame of the institution he heads. They again expose the bad manners of a president increasingly distant from sincerity and citizenship, publicly criticized by an Ombudsman who makes it very clear that he does not respond in a timely manner to the requests of the opposition, of many users of the Amavir residences and now also of the Ombudsman, who reiterated the request for information and demands more transparency regarding the facts that are being revealed bit by bit, and this will be the subject of our new question in the plenary session on April 27. In which I hope he answers me and does not try to dodge the issue again.”
“Furthermore, for all these reasons,” concludes Óscar Noda, “we once again ask the Cabildo Insular de Lanzarote that, following the writing of the Diputado del Común, they act with speed and provide the documentation to each and every one of the relatives and users of the residences and to the opposition parties regarding what is happening with the Amavir residences. I hope that after the shameful request of the Diputado del Común, the president stops hiding the truth and sends us all the files that have been requested and have not been delivered. Definitely, Lanzarote deserves more, much more, and does not deserve a government like Oswaldo Betancort's, which prefers to cover up the shame of its government rather than be faithful to the island it presides over and its citizens.”
