The Councilor of the Cabildo of Lanzarote for Nueva Canarias (NC) and mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda (UPY), asked in the last plenary session the reasons for the dismissal of the manager of the Lanzarote Water Consortium, Domingo Pérez, receiving a response from the president that "confirms the lack of transparency that surrounds everything that is happening in the integral water cycle of Lanzarote".
In his response, Oswaldo Betancort stated only that "the dismissal is a power of the president of the Consortium and that he exercised it, skipping over the more than 10 years that the already dismissed manager has held the position, a responsibility that he has maintained despite the different governments and different political signs of the Cabildo in these last 10 years".
For the mayor of Yaiza as well, "this new and alarming fact adds to the press conference in which the president announced the 90 million investment in the Integral Water Cycle, without providing projects and without clarifying where those economic resources come from, and if these will be enough to end the shortage of drinking and agricultural water".
But for Óscar Noda, "the list of grievances that make him maintain the idea of the lack of transparency reaches its climax after having requested, without any success, as councilor and as mayor of Yaiza thirteen reports to the president of the Cabildo on the diagnosis of the real state of the Integral Water Cycle, with special mention to the cuts and supply, as well as knowing the projects of the supply plan and the replacement of the supply network of the plan presented to the media, knowing the results of the audits commissioned by the president of the Cabildo in relation to the Integral Water Cycle and the report on the state of execution of the projects underway in the Integral Water Cycle promoted by the Water Consortium of Lanzarote".
Noda adds that "it is also not a minor issue to know the investments that the private company Canal Gestión should make in these 10 years that it has been working in Lanzarote because what we are not going to allow is that public money is used to resolve its commitments and responsibilities. It is an issue that the president of the Cabildo must clarify".
"The president continually and constantly forgets that the Consortium is made up of 40% by the City Councils and 60% by the Cabildo of Lanzarote, and even so, the changes he is making are notified to the press before us, the consortium members, demonstrating an absolute contempt for the statutes of the entity. He does it, moreover, without demonstrating what he said in his investiture of governing with an outstretched hand and with a great democratic spirit", adds Councilor Óscar Noda.
"Obviously, this behavior worries me, because the attitude of the president of the Cabildo in relation to the changes and announcements in the Island Water Consortium does not give off a democratic or transparent spirit and my obligation as councilor, but also as a consortium mayor, is to let him know, a position that I hope will be shared by the seven city councils that represent the interests of the entire population of Lanzarote. This is not about one party or another, what is at stake here is the management of a scarce and essential resource that must be addressed with height and transparency", concludes the councilor.
