Kallco CEO Roger Ganesh has defended the company owned by his son-in-law Arvin Kalloo, saying they engaged in a competitive tendering process for ther Manzanilla Highway contract like all the other competing firms.
He said Kallco participated in a process that was “extremely rigorous, even more rigorous than in the past, you need to have a lot of bonds in place assets etcetera, we tendered competitively and we qualified at all levels, technically and financially.” He added they “participated in a very fair and very transparent process” and won the bid “fairly and squarely.”
He dismissed allegations that the company got the contract because of its relationship with Sinanan, saying “the Minister had no say, he could not make a recommendation for the contract. This was NIDCO. No Minister gets involved in the process.”
Ganesh said while “mauvais langue, gossip and bad talk is the norm” in this country, he wanted people to “stop the unfair criticism because it is dangerous.”
He said: “I have my family, children and grandchildren, and when people say things it bothers me a lot.”
Ganesh, who was the longest serving director of highways in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and retired in 2014, admitted that Kallco was terminated from the Maracas Bay project, but he said this was “not because the company could not do the job,” but because of the failure of the engineering firm retained by the Ministry of Tourism, which he said “failed in administering and managing the project” properly.