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PANAMA. One hundred and fify boats belonging to the Air and Navy Service (SENAN), many of them in a “deplorable” condition, have been d...
PANAMA. One hundred and fify boats belonging to the Air and Navy Service (SENAN), many of them in a “deplorable” condition, have been discovered during a inspection of hangars in Rodman by the Minister of Government and Justice, Jose Raul Mulino and the director of SENAN, Rigoberto Gordon.
Some of the boats used to be part of the coastguard fleet and were used for patrol. Others were confiscated during drug investigations by the Attorney General.
But, according to Mulino, “the rest are junk,” their condition now is “scandalously deteriorated”, and many of them are little more than scrap metal.
It is “a disaster” that SENAN had not made better use of the equipment available to them, he said.
Mulino´s office will now make an inventory and the two boats and two vehicles still in good condition will be salvaged and put back to work for coastguard patrol.
Mulino said he will ask the Attorney General’s Office to open an investigation and to see if there was a legal way to sell off the rest, inlcluding numerous boat trailers that were no longer fit for use. “ All we can do is get rid of them,” he said.
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