Updated: PL spokesman calls for resignation of Resources Minister

(Adds ministry's reply) PL spokesman Leo Brincat this afternoon called for the resignation of Resources  Minister George Pullicino as well as the directors, who were mostly political appointees, of WasteServ. Addressing a news conference, he said this was in view of the 13 pages of shortcomings listed by the auditor in the National Audit Office put on the table of the House yesterday. Mr Brincat described the findings as “shocking, shameful and scandalous” and pointed out that in a recent Parliamentary committee hearing on black dust, the Mepa chairman had said that when he inherited Mepa, it had zero credibility. This was also when Mepa was under Minister Pullicino, so the only path open to him was to resign. Mr Brincat gave a list of the main findings of the auditor’s report regarding Wasteserv, which showed that a number of procurement procedures were often not followed and that transparency left a lot to be desired. The people, he said, were thirsty for good governance and the PL had been calling for a thorough investigation or independent auditing into the technical side of Wasteserv. A PL government, he promised, would try to identify why there were so many shortcomings and...