Robert Negoiță answers residents who are worried that he built roads over gas mains: “Our street is not on their pipe, their pipe is under our street”

Robert Negoiță reproached the citizens who asked him questions about the revelations made by the Recorder about the roads built in Sector 3 over gas mains that they came with “theme” and asked Transgaz to close the roads if there is danger, according to a video shared on the “Pallady Civic Initiative Group” and quoted by B365.

According to a Recorder investigation published on Monday, at the behest of Mayor Robert Negoiță, 11 asphalted roads over gas mains were built illegally in District 3 of the Capital in recent years. On Wednesday, during one of the regular meetings he has with the citizens of Sector 3, Robert Negoiță was questioned by residents worried about the risk of possible cracks in the pipes that could lead to a tragedy.

“They came here with a task and they don't let me talk,” Negoiță says of those who questioned him, according to the footage posted on Facebook. “These roads have always been here,” Negoiță says, at which point he is interrupted by citizens who tell them “that's not true, it was corn, I've been here for so many years.”

“The gas that passes through that pipe is neither mine nor yours. That gas is paid for by each of us, the pipes are yours. Our street is not on your pipe, your pipe is under our street. It is your duty to protect your pipe because it is neither mine nor yours”, says Negoiță while some citizens start laughing.

Recorder disclosures

The roads were built to serve the real estate complexes built in the last ten years in the Brațării area, in the east of Bucharest, according to the REcored investigation.

The City Hall of Sector 3 did not have any approvals from Transgaz, which notified the local administration right from the beginning of the works.

However, Negoiță overstepped the laws and the Transgaz notifications and ordered that the roads be built over the highways, Recorder notes, adding that Transgaz also sued the District 3 City Hall this year.

A man inside the Sector 3 City Hall told the Recorder that Negoiță knowingly defied the warnings of specialists.

“His interests are more important than anything else in the sector,” says the whistleblower. He agreed to speak only under the protection of anonymity, for fear of the revenge of the PSD mayor, whom he said was untouchable by any state institution.