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Former Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales is pushing back against statements made about WASA during Thursday's post-Cabinet media briefing. He's accusing the current administration of political theatrics and misinformation.
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00:26minister marvin gonzalez is pushing back against statements made about wasa during thursday's
00:32post-cabinet media briefing he is accusing the current administration of political theatrics
00:37and misinformation gonzalez says the current public utilities minister barry pedareth was a member of
00:43the cabinet subcommittee involved in the wasa transformation plan the same document prime
00:48minister kamala posad v sasa destroyed during her media briefing at a press conference gonzalez
00:54defended the plan and questioned the government's portrayal of it
01:00we recommend that the restructuring and or the transformation plan for wasa
01:06be forwarded to the committee for its consideration before its implementation this is one of the major
01:15recommendations of that joint select committee which comprised of none other than mr barry pedara as he
01:25was then a member of parliament for princess stone who is now the minister of public utilities and who
01:32witnessed a charade yesterday gonzalez claims the plan went beyond management's restructuring describing it
01:43as a national water integration policy he accused the new government of misleading the public about the
01:48state of the nation's water supply he stated that under the former administration 61 of the population had
01:56a 24 7 water access contrary to the 16 figures cited by the current government the former minister also took aim
02:03at padart's conduct but i want to warn barry pedart that you have started on the wrong foot you are behaving
02:12like a wajan you are behaving in a manner that is unfit for public office
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