How Veliaj deceived the citizens about the Tirana incinerator

2024-06-17 18:40:00, Politikë CNA

How Veliaj deceived the citizens about the Tirana incinerator

The Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, photo source: LSA

The leader of the DP for Tirana, Belind Kelliçi, has revealed the fraud of the mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, regarding the price of waste at the Sharra landfill.

Veliaj has stated that he has reduced the price of waste. He has said several times in his speeches that in 2014 PD proposed that waste be paid 38 euros/ton and that the Municipality of Tirana has made it 29 euros/ton.

Kelliçi analyzed these claims showing the truth of the IFC study, conducted in 2014.

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He said on Sonila Meço's show that, in fact, the service that Veliaj pays today at 29 euros/ton, PD had proposed at the price of 12 euros/ton.

"It was precisely this study, this document that surprisingly disappeared after the arrival of Erion Veliaj at the head of the Municipality of Tirana, which served as a public justification for Erion Veliaj to undertake the initiative he undertook, which he gave to the "Dutch company" , which was Mirel Mërtiti and Klodian Zoto as tenants, but which is Erion Veliaj as the actual owner.

It has lied to the Albanian public, it has lied to the citizens of Tirana and all Albanians for at least 7 years in a row regarding this report, a detailed report of the IFC, of ??the World Bank, as a proposal in 2014 that sought to give with a concession from the Municipality of Tirana, under the direction of Basha then and the DP, for 20 years processing, waste treatment, city cleaning, landfill expansion, waste disposal and new bins. So, the entire waste process chain was proposed by IFC to be done at 38 euros/ton.

Sawmill Landfill, source CNA

This document was received by Erion Veliaj, but not only, for the sake of truth, also Prime Minister Rama in every studio. They went from study to study, they lied, they said that the DP had it at 38 euros/ton and we have it at 29 euros/ton. But this is where the deception begins. In the proposal, 12 euros/ton is the processing of waste, 26 euros/ton is the deposit of waste and 38 euros/ton is the fee for doing the whole chain", said the DP leader for Tirana.

Kelliçi accused Veliaj that he had disappeared this IFC document in order not to have any traces implicating him in the affair.

"Veliaj disappeared as soon as he entered the municipality the document and only used the fable, he only used the number in order to confuse both the citizens and the public opinion. When we requested this document in the investigative commission of incinerators in 2022, it was not found either in the Municipality of Tirana or in the Ministry of Finance. Citizens should understand why Erion Veliaj stays in the municipality office every day. Erion Veliaj stands precisely to destroy documents, to interfere with the protocol, to destroy evidence and to destroy facts that implicate him in this affair", he emphasized./ CNA