Plumbing 222 Years Long

Baku / 29.01.19 / Turan: Sensational information was obtained by the Turan news agency during a lawsuit against the state-owned company Azersu. The Agency filed a lawsuit against Azersu OJSC in connection with its refusal to respond to an information request provided for by the law on freedom of information.

The information request dealt with work on the provision of drinking water to the village of Buzovna, which counts about 40 thousand inhabitants. The sensation is that AZN 122.7 million was allocated for the construction of the water supply and sewage system, and only AZN 2.76 million was spent, including 283.9 thousand in 2018. According to Azersu OJSC, the project was launched in October 2013, and an average of 552,000 manat was spent per year. At this rate, the work will take 222 years.

However, in reality, work to ensure multi-unit tasks in the village of Buzovna began in December 2017, according to builders, should not cover private houses, including the base village of Buzovna, which has a history of hundreds of years and suffers from water scarcity and lack of sewage - however, like other suburban settlements of Baku. Works on the multi-apartment building site did not cover the sewerage system, which is about 70 years old. The works were done inconclusively and poorly - water does not flow into all the houses, plastic pipes were laid in the ground without insulation, and today one can observe ruptures of the water pipes.

It should be noted that in 2016, Azersu OJSC, using funds allocated from the budget, tried to conduct water supply to a number of high-ranking officials in the Buzovna dacha massif and the work was suspended after informational intervention by Turan. http://www.turan.az/ext/news/2016/8/free/Want%20to%20Say/ru/56043.htm The pipeline was pulled through the village, which suffered from lack of drinking water.

However, today all these officials are already provided with water, and several more high-ranking and wealthy people have been added to them, which cannot be said about the indigenous locals.

Let us return to the plumbers' response letter received as a result of the trial, signed by the Deputy Chairman of Azersu OJSC Etibar Mammadov. It states that AZN 122.7 million was allocated from the state budget to Azersu OJSC to provide water, create a sewage system and introduce water meters in the village of Buzovna, Khazar district.

From the answer it follows that the project covers only part of Buzovna, including apartment buildings and elite dacha massifs, which are adjoined by a boarding school, a nursing home, and a hospital.

The project was prepared by ETLI Sukanal at Azersu. Contract works are carried out by the enterprises Hydro Inshaat Service, Arko Tamir Tikinti Shirketi, and Sutikinti.

The program was launched in October 2013 and in accordance with the state program is carried out in stages.

To Turan"s letter to Etibar Mammadov with a request to highlight the person in charge who would give an explanation about the project on the spot, the latter did not answer.

Azersu"s response to an information request reveals the continuing serious problems in the transparency and spending of public funds by this organization.

In 2009, a state program was adopted to provide all suburban settlements of Baku with drinking water and sewage until the end of 2013. As a result, despite the multimillion-dollar funds, there is neither water nor sewage.

In 2013, President Ilham Aliyev criticized the work of Azersu OJSC, gave a deferment of one year and demanded that work be completed no later than the end of 2014. But these demands were never met, as there is neither water nor sewage. Nobody knows how much money was allocated for this. But from this it follows that the funds were already allocated once and they went "down the drain". The re-allocated funds, as it can be seen from the actions of Azersu OJSC, go "down the drain" once more.--0--