The Popular Party has announced this morning its intention to take to court the minor contracts related to the performance of Morad in Melilla last February. Although the District Councilor, Mohamed Ahmed, assured that his department acted as a “collaborator” In this event, which was the responsibility of an individual, the Autonomous City spent a total of more than 207,000 euros on the concert through 18 “clearly divided” minor contracts, according to the people’s deputy, Isabel Moreno, denounced.
At a press conference, the representative of the PP assured that the CEPEM advisor “lied” when he said publicly that Morad would cost the people of Melilla between 60,000 and 80,000 euros in collaboration with the promoter of the show, the company K Eventos, which, according to Moreno said He lacks experience in the sector since his specialty is the hospitality industry.
for the popular those more than 207,000 euros is “a scandalous figure” through which “it could have paid two or three times” what the event actually costs. And the worst thing, in his opinion, is that the CpM Government areas made a “breakdown of concepts in clear divisions” to carry out the 18 minor contracts, 11 of which correspond to Districts.
And the problem, added Isabel Moreno, is that the contracts made say little about the fact that the show was really organized by a private party. It is not for nothing that these are concepts such as “opening service, speaker, dj, lights and sound, surveillance and private security, catering, staff and hostesses, and even merchandising and artist marketing”, explained. The concept that most attracts attention, said the popular deputy, is that there was a contract “for supervision, management, organization and coordination of the event.”
“This is nonsense and unjustifiable waste in addition to the administrative malpractice that we have already denounced”he pointed out to add that there was a transfer of a space from the Environment (bullring) that, in addition, was arranged with public funds.
For the PP group, which has already requested all the files on these minor contracts, these are facts of “extreme seriousness” that “cause us deep concern.” So much so that have informed the comptroller of the Autonomous City of all these facts, in order to “adopt the appropriate measures” when monitoring the payment of contracts.
“We are waiting for the different files to arrive”, commented Isabel Moreno “but it is evident that there is a situation of splitting up the contracts that were carried out and a plundering of public money that we are going to denounce before the competent authorities. It worries us because it is not the first scandal of this legislature”, he concluded, but not before ironically recommending to those who want to dedicate themselves to the issue of organizing concerts “that they go to the CpM headquarters because they fix everything there and it is the most easy to bring a show.”
