In the midst of the corruption scandal of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), Minister Ricardo Bonilla was mentioned during the hearing of charges against Olmedo López, Sneyder Pinilla and Luis Eduardo López.
In the midst of this debate, the congressman Jota Pe Hernández went head-on against Minister Bonilla and the official ended up calling him “senator” on several occasions.
A day later, in , the senator said that this was the case of those members of the Petro Government, once they were involved in corruption scandals. He also questioned the poor performance of the ministries, revealing the strategy behind it.
“The money, as has already been known, is sent to trusts. The money from the ministries, for the most part, is kept. And when they show the table of how they are going to spend the money in 2025, we see that unlike 2023, 2024, the two years in which the Petro Government has been able to execute; we see that unlike the states two years, In 2025 they plan to spend a lot of money, because that is the year that those campaigns start.“, said Congressman Jota Pe Hernández.
“Of course. The Government has said this openly with this budget table and the country has clearly recognized it. And we as congressmen know that in 2025 that political machinery, that economic structure, will be started by the government to benefit its political campaign.“, he said in
The senator also stated that, although President Gustavo Petro has repeatedly said who supposedly has no interest in staying in power, his actions demonstrate the opposite.
“He says he doesn’t like power, that he doesn’t want to stay, but everything he does and is doing is almost to perpetuate himself in power. But here I would like to call the attention of those who currently have the most valuable power, which are the Colombians. And I don’t want to beat up the country, but I do want to call their attention, because many times Colombians, even though they are having a hard time, allow themselves to be extorted with a subsidy or with 100 thousand pesos that they are given on election day,” added the senator.
