Dubious BMC consultant claims he is messiah

Testifying before the committee last week, Prasad said if the recommendations he came up with during his three-months tenure as consultant had been implemented, the embattled BMC could have been turned around in a couple of months."If [my] recommendations had been taken, we would be smiling today. Millions and millions of Pula could have been saved," he said.

Prasad's recommendations for turning the BMC around have not been implemented because his tenure as independent consultant and financial advisor was aborted amid what he called "a media fiasco" that was sparked by the discovery that he, a board member, had been engaged at a rate of P1,500 per hour. Prasad revealed during his testimony that the rate had actually been slashed in half from his original charge of P3,000 per hour.