Government suppliers gathered this Wednesday at the Financial Platform in Quito to once again demand their overdue payments from the Ministry of Finance. However, this time they also sent a worrying complaint. Several vendors, desperate for payment, received phone calls from people in the ministry offering their services to quickly “manage payments” in exchange for a commission.
It was commented by Marco Legízamo, the president of the Association of Unpaid Government Suppliers, who assured that he represents at least 120 companies that owe about 10 million dollars, which has been going on since September and October last year.
This Friday at 3:00 p.m., the group is expected to be received by the assemblyman. He will ask lawmakers to request the appearance of Minister Juan Carlos Vega Malo to explain what the payment policy is. He assures that there is little clarity and that it is not known why certain people with December salaries are paid, while others with older salaries remain unpaid. For Legízamo, the most important thing is that there is transparency and that, with few or many resources, the state pays everyone equally and that it is not only suppliers who are victimized.
When asked if he knew whether the invitees agreed to pay the commission, he said that several of them refused, but he cannot claim that there are also those who have agreed, but are not speaking.
Meanwhile, representatives of security, health and technology companies met at the Financial Platform with signs and managed to be helped by two officials: Belén Landázuri and Fabián Vallejo, who could not explain the payment policy to them and told them that there would be another meeting next Wednesday .
Among the vendors who attended was Mireya Guerra, part of the security companies. She lamented that their wages were not cut and seemed unmotivated to trust the state. He assures that as companies they have found themselves under a hammer and an anvil because they have obligations to pay DZI and IESS, but that the state, on the other hand, does not pay them and nothing happens.
Paola Guevara, representative of pharmaceutical suppliers, as well as Martín Salvatierra, from insurance, complained about non-payment and having to fulfill, even without cash, the obligations of SRI and IESS
Source: Eluniverso
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