Public Works Minister  fires Director of Inspections

According to official sources consulted by La Prensa, the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), led by Rafael Sabonge, made changes to one of its main positions, aimed at supervising public infrastructure works throughout the country, and who would have been one of the minister’s right hands from the beginning of his duties.

Nicolás Real, who served as the MOP’s national director of inspections, was replaced in his position by engineer José Murdock.

” Since last Friday, the engineer has not been in office and was replaced, I do not know the reasons for his departure,” said the director of the MOP in Chiriquí, Arturo López, in dialogue with La Prensa.

Real was in charge of supervising all the works of the MOP, under the Sabonge administration; many of them questioned; such as The construction of the Modular Hospital for the care of COVID-19 patients, the project that dealt with the landslide of Cerro San Pablo, in Coclé, in charge of the company Equibal SA, whose owners were donors of the Laurentino Cortizo campaign, in addition to the works carried out by Bagatrac SA, after the blows of hurricanes ETA and IOTA in 2020.