snoop1130 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Thailand’s netizens are sharing images of “fancy” lamp posts, with Thai sculptures on the top, in many rural areas. One of them is in Nakhon Si Thammarat and has led to a corruption probe by local authorities, according to the provincial anti-corruption agency. Nakhon Si Thammarat province procured 108 lamp posts, for Karom Road in Pho-Sadet sub-district, with a budget of 10 million baht, as earlier reported by Thai PBS’s Thai-language service. The winning bidder bid an average of over 92,000 Baht per post, a price point which the public has found unreasonable. The same project also covered 112 new street signs along one road in town, with a budget of over 2 million baht. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/possible-corruption-in-provincial-lamp-post-procurements/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-06-16 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post richard_smith237 Posted June 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2021 Possible corruption in Thailand.... Nooooooooooo !!! never !!!! I would be surprised if there were a single facet of any decision in Thailand involving development, procurement or pretty much any decision at all which did not involve graft at some level..... Corruption is so endemic throughout every single facet of society here that it is the norm. People are considered idiots if in a position of decision making power and they are not corrupt. 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted June 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2021 Possible corruption at 92k Bart's per post .. I am shaken to the core at the very suggestion .. personally I'd have given them a final coat of gold glitter paint and rounded it up to 95 .. and given it can be a perilous occupation being a powepole in Thailand expect some to get taken out by Hiso's in barrel rolling Merc's or Porsches .. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mtls2005 Posted June 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2021 OK, so which family owns the one lamppost concession monopoly? And people thought the Shinawatras were too corrupt. Mere children compared to the junta. 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internationalism Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 some of those projects run into bln bht. Is it Prayuth's brother responsible for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 New Mercedes AMG? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Normal so don't get too stressed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickstart Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I do not know about the lamp posts, but the corruption that go's on in the roads that the lamp posts sit on ,has I think got worse over the past few years, road re laid 6 months ago near me ,has more crack in it than on my old grans fruit cake and that is not the only one . This junta in my area has done a lot to the rural road system ,but a lot will be back to what they were before in a few years time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 14 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Nakhon Si Thammarat province procured 108 lamp posts, for Karom Road in Pho-Sadet sub-district, with a budget of 10 million baht, as earlier reported by Thai PBS’s Thai-language service. The winning bidder bid an average of over 92,000 Baht per post, a price point which the public has found unreasonable. The same project also covered 112 new street signs along one road in town, with a budget of over 2 million baht. Someone's doing very nicely out of all this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I wondered about this when I saw the fancy dolphin ones springing up all around Pattaya..... one just knows they were a little more expensive than they should have been! Wonder if there is any connection to the companies supplying them elsewhere. Ah well, they won't get damaged by that other great monetary cash cow, flooding alleviation works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Follow the money, until someone high up tells you to stop. Am sensing someone on an MP's staff slipped something into a budget bill re: cultural/civic improvements, with budget that had to be spent by fiscal year end, and then recommended a specific supplier. Kick-backs for all, crappy fixtures for the masses. Yippee. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunjeff Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 This is news? I first heard Thais talking about corruption in the procurement of locally-themed fancy lampposts over 20 years ago... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, khunjeff said: This is news? I first heard Thais talking about corruption in the procurement of locally-themed fancy lampposts over 20 years ago... Well not all of us read twenty-year old newspapers. But thanks for that update, and now lets go to the weather report from 1988. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venom Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 My personal favorite is U-turn bridges over the railroad tracks in every two samlaw village while the main road gets a traffic light! Literally 30 people and a heard of cows in our village and we get a u-turn bridge nearly the size of the Bangkok toll way! A few hundred million baht well spent. We can use it to safely get the cattle to the other side of the tracks!???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) Mukdahan... Edited June 17, 2021 by mtls2005 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 9 minutes ago, mtls2005 said: Mukdahan... Well decorated track, just waiting on the next millions to be allocated for widening to a single lane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkside Gray Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Surely this is a mistake, Possible corruption? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: Mukdahan... In a country where some struggle for their daily survival. Rotten to the bone. Seen similar examples on the net. And they are everywhere. In March I drove on Pattaya eastside along some less than unimportant road along some fields with such kitsch. Edited June 17, 2021 by KhunBENQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caspersfriend Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: Mukdahan... By the look of the 'fluid' in the glass containers, that's a disguised local moonshine distillery lol Edited June 17, 2021 by Caspersfriend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 A total misunderstanding, 92000 baht a post is a absolute bargain, long live the brown envelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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