Leguan Stelling contractor defends performance, says ministry responsible for cost overruns

Sattrohan Maraj, head of S. Maraj Contracting Services

By Joseph Allen

Days after Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill declared that the government has no intention of paying him a single dollar more for the long-delayed Leguan Stelling rehabilitation, the contractor has defended his performance and blamed the ministry for adding on tasks.

Sattrohan Maraj, the head of S. Maraj Contracting Services said the minister does not appear to be in possession of all the facts.

“The Minister is not putting out the truth about this project. I don’t know if he wasn’t informed by his engineers but whatever statement they have in the Chronicle; it’s misleading”, Maraj told Stabroek News