The Minister of Public Utilities, Ivan Collendavelloo will not have convinced anyone by responding to the PNQ of the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. He wanted to drown the fish by defending his project.
- A kilowatt of electricity costs 2 – 3 times more expensive when produced by a gas turbine than by coal or heavy oil.
- The first gas turbines installed in Nicolay led to the establishment of a select committee to shed light on commissions distributed by suppliers
- The Minister of Energy at the time, Mahen Utchanah took the blame, but the jackpot landed at the Sun Trust.
- Aneerood Jugnauth then Prime Minister publicly praised Mahen Utchanah during a function
- Mahen Utchanah later swore that he had not seen a penny of the Rs.25 million in commissions paid
- Now history repeats itself with Pravind Jugnauth as Prime Minister
- Will we see more clearly about this new scandal?
