The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM), which had hired a company to replace worn street signs in the city, has discovered that the newly replaced street name signs are of poor quality, failing to meet the project’s contractual requirements, according to an IAM statement yesterday.
The statement said that the bureau has preliminarily concluded that the company has committed fraud, because of which it has reported the case to the police.
The statement said that a number of older street name signs had been damaged to varying degrees due to exposure to sunlight and precipitation over the years because of which it had hired the company to replace about 400 street signs.
The statement noted that the bureau is still carrying out the final inspection after the company has recently completed the project, adding that IAM inspectors have meanwhile discovered that the newly replaced street name signs are of poor quality.
According to the statement, the IAM inspectors have concluded that the company has failed to carry out the project in compliance with the technical requirements listed in its contract.
The bureau has preliminarily concluded that the company has “cut corners” in carrying out the project, the statement said, adding that as the case involves fraud, the bureau has reported the case to the police.
The statement also said that the bureau will start replacing the street name signs affected as soon as possible.
This undated photo downloaded from the website of the government’s Macau Foundation’s (FM) Macau Memory shows a street name sign on Avenida de Horta e Costa outside the Red Market.
