Infrastructure Malta CEO Fredrick Azzopardi to leave public roads agency next month
Frederick Azzopardi will be leaving Malta’s roads agency Infrastructure Malta as from next month.
In comments given to MaltaToday, Azzopardi confirmed that he is currently working his notice period as CEO before his impending departure.
“I had indicated my intention to leave last December but government asked me to stay on until the election,” he said.
He said that it was the ideal time for him to search for other opportunities after subsequently having supervised Infrastructure Malta since 2018.
In his comments to the media house, he said that, just like in other positions he occupied, he leaves when he oversees the period of transformation.
“Just like I had done when I was CEO at Enemalta, I oversaw the period of transformation and then moved on. I felt it was time for me to move on,” Azzopardi said.
The soon to be former Infrastructure Malta CEO also denied rumours going around about him going to work with the infamous Joseph Portelli or on accepting any job related to construction, as he has “a job lined up and it is not in the construction industry”.
Infrastructure Malta was set up in 2018 to fulfil an electoral pledge done by a PL government to regenerate the nation’s roads with an allocated budget of €700m.
Although the agency started to do several projects, it also faced criticism over its ways as many trees had been chopped off to make way for several projects, for which Azzopardi’s brash reactions when dealing with activists and concerned civilians did not help.
Infrastructure Malta defended its ways by insisting that all this was needed for the total regeneration of Maltese roads, which would make them safer and less congested.
It had also planted trees and shrubs next to new roads to replace lost ones.