For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is con­demn­ing the hir­ing of “in­flu­encers” at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), claim­ing the em­ploy­ees were re­cruit­ed by the Gov­ern­ment with­out qual­i­fi­ca­tions or a trans­par­ent hir­ing process.

Gon­za­les al­leged that some WASA em­ploy­ees were hired as part of “po­lit­i­cal pay­back” and are be­ing paid to “ma­lign” and “den­i­grate” crit­ics of the UNC-led Gov­ern­ment rather than im­prove wa­ter ser­vices and in­fra­struc­ture.

“If any one of these peo­ple are qual­i­fied for the jobs that they are cur­rent­ly be­ing paid to do in­side WASA, if they ap­ply like every oth­er cit­i­zen who is qual­i­fied for the job, if they have been in­ter­viewed and there is a trans­par­ent process, and if they would have gone through that and got the jobs, I have ab­solute­ly no prob­lem with that.