00:00Senior counsel and temporary PNM Senator Larry Lala says the UNC administration has failed the population on several fronts, including
00:09water distribution, crime fighting and accountability in public projects.
00:14Wassa's job is no longer to provide you with water, but to hire UNC trolls. Your pipes dry, your tanks
00:27dry, your children going to school without bathing, but Wassa has UNC propaganda flowing morning, noon and night.
00:35Lala also criticized government crime policies, claiming criminals have become emboldened under the current administration.
00:43Under the UNC, the criminals are comfortable. The UNC promised this stand-your-ground law will solve everything. Today, that
00:52poorly conceptualized stand-your-ground law is just like the UNC. It could barely work.
00:58But much of his criticism focused on the Landmark TT development project, which he described as a matter raising serious
01:06concerns about accountability and public trust.
01:09What has happened in Landmark TT is not just a scandal. What has happened raises serious questions about breach of
01:18fiduciary duty, misuse of state resources, and abuse of public trust.
01:24These are not political words, they are legal words. And legal words have consequences.
01:30The government has maintained that Landmark TT requires no direct state funding.
01:36Hear how it appears to me, and I'm sure to many of you, Landmark TT is not doing a public
01:43-private model.
01:45Landmark TT is doing a UNC-to-UNC financier model, where millions connected to public business appear to us, the
01:55public, to be directed to the pockets of a UNC-favored contractor.
02:00However, Lala questioned the true value of the state's involvement, including the use of public lands.
02:07Stop telling us that no state money is involved in the Alambi project, and tell us, A, the value of
02:15our land.
02:16Not Kamla or Saddam or Ramhit's land, but our land that is being given to their favorite contractor to develop.
02:23We want to know the value of the land. We want to know, B, when the upscale house on this
02:31land is sold, how much of the purchase price will come back to the Treasury.
02:36He also raised concerns about the speed of the bidding process and whether some parties may have had prior information.
02:43How could a successful bidder prepare technical drawings and arrange financing and bid on such a large project in under
02:56two weeks, from the opening of the bid to the closing?
03:01This is a proper question to ask in the circumstances.
03:04Did the successful bidder have insider information before the opening of the bid?
03:11Lala says the public deserves clear answers on the landmark TT project and greater transparency in the management of state
03:19resources.
03:20Ravishita Wari, Rupnarein, TV6 News.
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