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Rethink after shady street lamp buys

Ombudsman to vet new procurements

Closely spaced solar-powered lamp posts topped with mythical kinnaree figures line both sides of a flooded street in tambon Racha Thewa of Samut Prakan province in a photo taken in June 2021. (File photo: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)

A fresh effort is under way to ensure accountability and transparency in any new local administrative organisation procurement projects and installation of so-called sculptural street lights.

The move followed the notorious 871-million-baht procurement of solar-powered street lamps topped with mythical kinnaree figures by the Racha Thewa tambon administration organisation (TAO) in Samut Prakan, which has led to at least 40 people being…

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