Pressure maintained on Prawit over posh watches
Volunteer social worker Ticha Nanakorn plans to pressure the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to speed up its investigation into the luxury wristwatches sported by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan.
Ticha announced on Facebook on Tuesday that she would submit a letter the next day to NACC president Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit, urging him to take legal action against General Prawit, who has been seen wearing 25 different watches with a combined value of nearly Bt30 million.
Ticha initiated a petition at Change.org on January 31 to press Prawit to keep his promise to step down if citizens no longer wanted him in government.
As of February 15, 80,018 people had backed the petition calling for the minister to resign from the Cabinet. Ticha presented the results to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
On Tuesday, Ticha posted that Prawit had submitted his fourth written explanation about the origin of the watches to the NACC last week, yet it remained unclear whether the agency would summon him for a meeting or take any other action.
“Society is curious about the NACC’s action on this case,” Ticha wrote.
Tomorrow (Wednesday), she said, activists would stage a symbolic demonstration at NACC headquarters to indicate that delayed action is unjust and to reaffirm that Prawit must resign.