Three Siġġiewi local councillors have raised concern over giving the locality’s highest award to former Labour MP Bertu Pace, “a person who has been embroiled in controversy”.
Pace is set to be awarded the
Onorifiċenza Mertu Siġġiewi, an honour granted to citizens for having served the locality or country to the highest order and in an exemplary manner.
In 2016,
Times of Malta reported that Pace, consultant to then agriculture parliamentary secretary Roderick Galdes, had been suspended after the police launched an investigation into a permit for his daughter for a villa outside a development zone.
The permit was issued in the name of Roderick Farrugia, his son-in-law, and an investigation by the Agriculture Department had led to the Planning Authority starting procedures to revoke the permit.