ANGELES CITY – “I challenge them if they are as transparent as my barangay hall project.”
Thus said yesterday Balibago Village Chief Rodelio “Tony” Mamac as he assailed alleged anomalous multi-million projects of Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno, including the controversial P600-million sports complex in Barangay Mining here.
Mamac showed Punto a compilation of documents related to the construction of Balibago’s P12-million, two-storey barangay hall project. This in the wake of City Administrator Mark Allen Sison’s statement that instead of the proposed sports complex, it should be “Mamac’s barangay hall” that needed to be questioned.
In a letter to City Engineer Donato Dizon on July 17, 2008, Mamac said “we would like to request your kind office to conduct a regular inspection of the construction thereat to assure our constituents of transparency, check and balance and that the building specifications are fully done with.”
“There are at least 500 letters and documents I compiled since I started the plan to make a barangay hall,” said Mamac.
“I wonder if Mayor Blueboy and his people are as complete and transparent when it comes to making projects using government funds,” he added.
“Everything was done aboveboard and legal as shown by the documents,” stressed Mamac.
Mamac said the sports complex set for groundbreaking on February 22 had been “illegal right from the start.”
In a position paper the 51-year-old village chief prepared himself, Mamac said the minutes of the meeting of the Local Development Council (LDC) in 2007 at Baguio City “was changed.” He stressed that “the sports complex project was never mentioned.”
Mamac also cited the net debt service ceiling of the city government amounting to P17 million monthly for 2009.
“If we add some P800 million more loan the debt ceiling of the city it could not handle it,” said Mamac.
Earlier, City Administrator Mark Allen Sison said the Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) approved the P813-million loan of the city government. He added that some P213 million would be used to pay the loans incurred during the time of then mayor and now Rep. Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin.
Sison assailed Mamac’s barangay hall project, saying it should have been bid out because it cost more than P5 million.
Mamac said they had bid out the project and it was won by RG Roque firm. RG Roque supplied the materials for the barangay hall completed in 2008.
Mamac said they had the construction of the project “by administration.”
Mamac said they had saved P840,000 from the “transparent construction” of the project.
He disclosed that they used the funds they saved to construct a public market just beside the barangay hall.
Mamac of the Liberal Party (LP) is a candidate for mayor in the 2010 elections.
Thus said yesterday Balibago Village Chief Rodelio “Tony” Mamac as he assailed alleged anomalous multi-million projects of Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno, including the controversial P600-million sports complex in Barangay Mining here.
Mamac showed Punto a compilation of documents related to the construction of Balibago’s P12-million, two-storey barangay hall project. This in the wake of City Administrator Mark Allen Sison’s statement that instead of the proposed sports complex, it should be “Mamac’s barangay hall” that needed to be questioned.
In a letter to City Engineer Donato Dizon on July 17, 2008, Mamac said “we would like to request your kind office to conduct a regular inspection of the construction thereat to assure our constituents of transparency, check and balance and that the building specifications are fully done with.”
“There are at least 500 letters and documents I compiled since I started the plan to make a barangay hall,” said Mamac.
“I wonder if Mayor Blueboy and his people are as complete and transparent when it comes to making projects using government funds,” he added.
“Everything was done aboveboard and legal as shown by the documents,” stressed Mamac.
Mamac said the sports complex set for groundbreaking on February 22 had been “illegal right from the start.”
In a position paper the 51-year-old village chief prepared himself, Mamac said the minutes of the meeting of the Local Development Council (LDC) in 2007 at Baguio City “was changed.” He stressed that “the sports complex project was never mentioned.”
Mamac also cited the net debt service ceiling of the city government amounting to P17 million monthly for 2009.
“If we add some P800 million more loan the debt ceiling of the city it could not handle it,” said Mamac.
Earlier, City Administrator Mark Allen Sison said the Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) approved the P813-million loan of the city government. He added that some P213 million would be used to pay the loans incurred during the time of then mayor and now Rep. Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin.
Sison assailed Mamac’s barangay hall project, saying it should have been bid out because it cost more than P5 million.
Mamac said they had bid out the project and it was won by RG Roque firm. RG Roque supplied the materials for the barangay hall completed in 2008.
Mamac said they had the construction of the project “by administration.”
Mamac said they had saved P840,000 from the “transparent construction” of the project.
He disclosed that they used the funds they saved to construct a public market just beside the barangay hall.
Mamac of the Liberal Party (LP) is a candidate for mayor in the 2010 elections.
