Close to a year after the government issued an ultimatum to the Indian supplier of the nine non-performing drainage pumps, the matter is still to be resolved, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has said.
While touching on infrastructure plans in his budget presentation, Mustapha informed the House that he and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall are working with the manufacturer to find a solution to the issue.
“… They bought 12 pumps with fire engines. Minister Nandlall and myself are still trying to rectify that problem. We are still talking to the contractor in India to get this matter resolved. Because every single time we have heavy rainfall the pumps cannot pump the water out of the system,” the Agriculture Minister informed the House.