Construcciones Torres has made a contractual assignment to another company so that it can finish the works of the Soo corrals, which have already suffered several major delays. This was explained this Thursday by the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, on Radio Lanzarote, where he pointed out that this assignment is endorsed by the municipal technicians, who consider it "viable".
Betancort explained that Construcciones Torres "was sold for one euro" to a new management and "is affected by Social Security". That is, it has a debt, so even if the Teguise City Council pays on time, the company does not receive that money, but Social Security directly seizes it. "No matter how much I try to pay, the company will not get paid," said the mayor.
Therefore, the City Council proposed to the new management of Construcciones Torres to make a contractual assignment and find another company with the same classification to continue the works. "And so it was. This Wednesday the assignment was signed in a notary. We have given them a deadline no later than the end of September or the beginning of October to finish the work," said the mayor, who believes that the new company "is from outside", and assures that it has no "relationship" with Construcciones Torres.
Meanwhile, the mayor has indicated that the Teguise City Council will prepare the administrative specifications that reflect what fee the farmers must pay monthly for their goats to be inside the corrals. "Once this happens, the farmers will have to consider whether to take them there, to the corrals, or somewhere else," he said.
The mayor of Teguise has promised that he "will remove the goats from the town". "In this legislature I am going to remove the goats, because if not, I will not run again. I think I have been quite clear," he said.
In this sense, he wanted to remember that the delay in these works is not the fault of the City Council, which has a "budget item allocated solely and exclusively for the Soo corrals". Thus, it is the internal problems of the company and its debt with Social Security that have endangered these works, which he now announces will resume.
