Admitting to an administrative oversight concerning the bus-purchasing scandal, Su Chung-kun (蘇崇昆), director of the Taipei City government's bus administration, yesterday made a verbal resignation request to his superior.
"In order to take responsibility for my negligence regarding the bus-purchasing issue, I hereby ask to resign," Su was quoted as saying, adding that he had done nothing to violate the law.
Chen Chin-cheng (陳金盛), the spokesperson of the city's Bureau of Transportation (BOT), told the Taipei Times yesterday that the bureau's director, Chen Wu-cheng (陳武正), has yet to make a decision concerning Su's request to resign.
The spokesman said that the director would make the decision within a couple of days.
"It is likely that Su's resignation will be granted and [that Su] will be asked to take a different position within the bureau."
The bus-purchasing scandal became public on Thursday when Taipei City Councilor Alex Fei (
Fei said that the Taipei City Bus Administration, the body that was responsible for buying the buses, allegedly allowed the bus manufacturer, Chengta (承達), to modify the original design of the vehicles and to install unauthorized emergency exits without the approval of the BOT.
Fei further claimed that the BOT, after discovering the flaws, had done nothing about it for the past six months.
DPP Taipei City Councilor Lee Chien-chan (李建昌) yesterday de-manded that the BOT director also step down, along with Su, to take responsibility for his part in the scandal.
"For his part in this [bus-purchasing] scandal, he [Chen Wu-cheng] should step down from his post," Lee was quoted as saying.
It was reported that Chen Wu-cheng had reported the scandal to Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) on Thursday and that he had asked to be punished.
"Mayor Ma will make a decision this coming Monday concerning punishment of Chen [Wu-cheng]," Wu Yu-sheng (
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