Martin Ojedanational director of Land Transport Councildeclared in RPP News that the burning of interprovincial buses of the Flores company It is a “terrorist attack”.
“It is a terrorist attack to prevent a company from the union like the company Flores —which have invested in a terminal to meet the needs of the population— try and prevent it from reopening its doors in any way,” Ojeda declared in La Rotativa del Aire-Night Edition.
He added that a month ago the supreme decree 010-2022-MTC “where the companies that have built and invested in terminals, which are authorized by the MTC, are given a preliminary period of 4 years in case they are in legal proceedings with the municipality, because we know the interests that are handled in some municipalities” .
He added that the representative of the company proceeded to inform the municipality of San Martin de Porres to reopen the finish. Ojeda suspects that there are interests of bad officials and the informal sector, who know that “if there is a formal terminal they can be ‘damaged’.”
Suspicion of the informal sector
Martin Ojeda pointed out that those responsible would be from the informal sector and criticized that the mayor of the district of San Martín de Porres, Julio Chavez (People’s Action), do not answer about the facts.
“We are not accusing the mayor because we are not the competition that would have to investigate this terrorist attack. What does seem strange to us is that when the Flores terminal closed, the mayor closed it, all the illegality was reborn like a phoenix. to open its doors for a matter of formality what a coincidence that two criminals perpetrate a terrorist attack towards the investments of an aggregate of our partnership. Something we are not going to allow,” Ojeda pointed out La Rotativa del Aire-Night Edition.
On the other hand, he indicated that they will go to the last consequences to find those responsible for defending formal and legal transport. “We are not going to allow something as delicate as transporting human lives to be the subject of assassins and extortionists to the point of removing competition by burning buses.”
Terminal Flores
Ojeda said in The Rotary of the Air-Night Edition that the ‘Flores’ terminal was about to open and considers the attack against the premises to be a coincidence because it was also the victim of bombs the day before. “In the videos it is clearly seen how two fascineros climb up Fonía street and throw materials. Yesterday a complaint was filed because they threw of the Molotov bombs on the same side,” declared Ojeda in RPP News.
“Yesterday, Sunday, and the complaint was filed at the sector police station. We are invoking the Minister, with its specialized units, to establish what happened here. Because years ago, in the same area in an informal terminal, an extremely rare bus caught fire in less than five minutes, which for many specialists is almost impossible, and 17 people died,” he added.
In this context, he asked the Police to investigate “why the high level of illegality and informality in the area and what a coincidence when a formal company wants to reopen, gangs with a terrorist attitude come” to penetrate the premises and cause “the burning of four buses”. “The Flores company, with this act, has lost 800 thousand dollars.”