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Bangkok Post
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Rethink after shady street lamp buys

Closely spaced solar-powered lamp posts topped with mythical kinnaree figures line both sides of a flooded street in tambon Racha Thewa of Samut Prakan province in a photo taken in June 2021. (File photo: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)

A fresh effort is under way to ensure accountability and transparency in any new local administrative organisation procurement projects and installation of so-called sculptural street lights.

The move followed the notorious 871-million-baht procurement of solar-powered street lamps topped with mythical kinnaree figures by the Racha Thewa tambon administration organisation (TAO) in Samut Prakan, which has led to at least 40 people being charged with misconduct.

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