The negative news about the government's rice stocks continues. The inspection teams currently checking rice warehouses and silos have already encountered a mountain of suspicious conditions in XNUMX provinces, such as missing rice, rotten rice or rice that is crawling with weevils.
Pannada Diskul, Acting Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, cites as an example a warehouse (no place designation) where 80 percent of Grade 2 Hom Mali (jasmine rice, Thailand's flagship product) is missing. In another warehouse, the rice sacks were stacked carelessly. There, too, rotten rice, weevils, rice that had fallen into powder, and rice that had become wet.
But there is even more wrong, says Pannada. Some warehouse managers refused to cooperate with the inspection teams. They said they are "not ready" to open the warehouse. The inspection teams will take 'appropriate measures' against them. Government employees involved in the disappearance of rice can also wet their chest. Their names are reported to the junta.
When more than 5 percent of the rice is missing, a report is made to the police. The Public Warehouse Organization is responsible for this. The PWO is one of the two organizations to which the farmers have handed in their rice under the mortgage system.
The first heads have already rolled: two top officials from the Department of Commerce have been transferred to an inactive post [read: suspended]. The permanent secretary of the ministry has already been replaced.
The transfer of the two top officials comes as no surprise, the newspaper writes, because they know everything about the rice trade. They are accused of favoring politicians rather than representing the interests of the people.
Former Democratic MP Warong Dechgitvigrom, who has long warned of missing rice and corruption, says the inspections now [after three days] prove that the Yingluck government has failed to contain losses.
(Source: Bangkok Post, July 8, 2014)
Photo above: 91.000 sacks of rice are missing from a warehouse in Pathum Thani. The empty space is propped up with a scaffolding.
Photo homepage: Bird, rat droppings and bird feathers on rice sacks in Ayutthaya.
Slowly it emerges how rotten the Thai rice system has worked. That is why I stick to my previous position: control everything, pay the farmers, burn the rice and send perpetrators behind bars for years. This is how you create confidence for the future towards everyone in the world, namely the consumer and international trade.
It is even better to punish all those perpetrators of corruption by having them pay everything back to the Thai government.
Or better said complete Bald Picking,
Then let them look for a job in construction .
To start mixing cement and dragging building blocks in the daily Thai temperatures.
Can they learn how the common people should get their bread or rather rice production on a daily basis .
But the corruption in Thailand is not only in the rice system.
I think that if they were to check everything, including at the land offices, they would come across much bigger issues.
The rice scam is just the tip of a very large iceberg.
Jan Beute.
I'm very happy that the army is in power! It's just a pity that foreign countries have no idea
what's really going on in Thailand.
The taxis are dealt with harshly, illegal structures on the beach are flattened.
Unfortunately they don't dare to tackle the country office then too many heads will roll.
Probably 10% of the chanot titles are not correct they have built everywhere like in nature parks,
reserves, built too high, too close to the water or above a certain meter limit of a hill.
In fact, the influence of the army is so good that the SET (stock exchange of Thailand) only goes up when the army is in power.
For Thailand it would be better to have a party state like Singapore .
Because otherwise we will keep that nagging between the red shirts and yellow shirts
who make each other's lives miserable when one or the other is in power.
Chokdee
Miles