ANGELES CITY – In a span of 22 days, Mayor Edgardo D. Pamintuan managed to solve, if not, addressed major problems left by former mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno.
Electricity was restored at the city hall before July 1, after Pamintuan talked to top officials of the Angeles Electric Corp. The Nepomuceno administration incurred at least P18-million of unpaid electric bills.
In a phone interview, Deputy Information Officer Deo Sambilay said the city recently paid some P8.4-million solely for electric bills.
In the first 15 days, Pamintuan focused in solving the garbage problem, traffic congestion, alleged corruption at the city hall, including hundreds of “ghost” employees, and the lack of medicines at the Ospital Ning Angeles.
“Cleaning of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in barangay Pampang has been done, hindi na nangangamoy ngayon,” Pamintuan told Punto Central Luzon.
He lambasted former administrator Mark Allen Sison for allegedly masterminding another “black propaganda” discrediting the present administration for failing to address the garbage problem.
A few weeks before Nepomuceno bids Angeleños goodbye, truckloads of garbage were left at the MRF, making the place a virtual open dumpsite.
Hundreds of residents earlier complained of foul smell emanating from the MRF which is only a few meters away from ONA.
Pamintuan said that Sison who “now claims to be an environmentalist tries to discredit me where in fact they are the ones who caused all these mess.”
“We will overcome all these problems. A lot of our friends are helping me. They even offered me to use their trucks (to transport the garbage) for free,” he said.
TRAFFIC
He also said that they hired some 172 personnel who are now deployed in major highways and intersections to maintain free flow of traffic in the city.
Pamintuan assured motorists that once the Pulungbulu bridge is done, traffic jams will significantly lessen.
“These are all palliative measures but we are formulating effective solutions to address all of these. But there are more work to be done,” he added.
CITY COLLEGE, NOT SPORTS COMPLEX
Asked if the controversial sports complex will be pursued, Pamintuan said they are planning to build a city college, a convention center and a public hospital in the same area.
He said the Philippine Veterans Bank has already agreed to reconstruct the P800-million loan made by the previous administration.
“With a city college, hundreds of students belonging to the poorest of the poor will now have the chance to finish college without worrying of paying expensive tuition fees,” Pamintuan said. The city government also vowed to offer scholarship to deserving students.
PROSECUTION
Citing irregularities in government transactions, City Administrator Dennis “Atty. Noy” Pamintuan said that they already formed a legal team who will study and file graft charges against erring officials under the Nepomuceno administration.
Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting and Councilor Willie Rivera earlier filed separate plunder raps against Nepomuceno in connection with the alleged overpriced P98-million lot in barangay Amsic.
In a separate interview, a high ranking official of the Lakas-CMD-Kampi based in Pampanga who refused to be named has urged Mayor Pamintuan to pursue all the graft and plunder cases.
“We have to teach them a lesson. Kapag hindi ito tinuloy at hindi sila naparusahan, para mo narin sinabing ok lang ang magnakaw sa gubyerno,” he said.
It could be recalled that city sports director Paul Puri admitted having three of the nine job order employees under his payroll in 2007, a few months after the local elections.
Sambilay said that as of now, the mayor has yet to hire job order employees.
“He wants to make sure that there will be no ghost employees under his administration,” he said.
SICK CAN’T WAIT
“Mayor Pamintuan is set to go to the United States this September to get hundreds of millions worth of medical equipment donated by George Samson’s group, known to be friends of the mayor,” said Atty. Noy in a text message on Thursday.
Targeting indigents here, the city government is also set to build a CT scan and dialysis center.
Electricity was restored at the city hall before July 1, after Pamintuan talked to top officials of the Angeles Electric Corp. The Nepomuceno administration incurred at least P18-million of unpaid electric bills.
In a phone interview, Deputy Information Officer Deo Sambilay said the city recently paid some P8.4-million solely for electric bills.
In the first 15 days, Pamintuan focused in solving the garbage problem, traffic congestion, alleged corruption at the city hall, including hundreds of “ghost” employees, and the lack of medicines at the Ospital Ning Angeles.
“Cleaning of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in barangay Pampang has been done, hindi na nangangamoy ngayon,” Pamintuan told Punto Central Luzon.
He lambasted former administrator Mark Allen Sison for allegedly masterminding another “black propaganda” discrediting the present administration for failing to address the garbage problem.
A few weeks before Nepomuceno bids Angeleños goodbye, truckloads of garbage were left at the MRF, making the place a virtual open dumpsite.
Hundreds of residents earlier complained of foul smell emanating from the MRF which is only a few meters away from ONA.
Pamintuan said that Sison who “now claims to be an environmentalist tries to discredit me where in fact they are the ones who caused all these mess.”
“We will overcome all these problems. A lot of our friends are helping me. They even offered me to use their trucks (to transport the garbage) for free,” he said.
TRAFFIC
He also said that they hired some 172 personnel who are now deployed in major highways and intersections to maintain free flow of traffic in the city.
Pamintuan assured motorists that once the Pulungbulu bridge is done, traffic jams will significantly lessen.
“These are all palliative measures but we are formulating effective solutions to address all of these. But there are more work to be done,” he added.
CITY COLLEGE, NOT SPORTS COMPLEX
Asked if the controversial sports complex will be pursued, Pamintuan said they are planning to build a city college, a convention center and a public hospital in the same area.
He said the Philippine Veterans Bank has already agreed to reconstruct the P800-million loan made by the previous administration.
“With a city college, hundreds of students belonging to the poorest of the poor will now have the chance to finish college without worrying of paying expensive tuition fees,” Pamintuan said. The city government also vowed to offer scholarship to deserving students.
PROSECUTION
Citing irregularities in government transactions, City Administrator Dennis “Atty. Noy” Pamintuan said that they already formed a legal team who will study and file graft charges against erring officials under the Nepomuceno administration.
Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting and Councilor Willie Rivera earlier filed separate plunder raps against Nepomuceno in connection with the alleged overpriced P98-million lot in barangay Amsic.
In a separate interview, a high ranking official of the Lakas-CMD-Kampi based in Pampanga who refused to be named has urged Mayor Pamintuan to pursue all the graft and plunder cases.
“We have to teach them a lesson. Kapag hindi ito tinuloy at hindi sila naparusahan, para mo narin sinabing ok lang ang magnakaw sa gubyerno,” he said.
It could be recalled that city sports director Paul Puri admitted having three of the nine job order employees under his payroll in 2007, a few months after the local elections.
Sambilay said that as of now, the mayor has yet to hire job order employees.
“He wants to make sure that there will be no ghost employees under his administration,” he said.
SICK CAN’T WAIT
“Mayor Pamintuan is set to go to the United States this September to get hundreds of millions worth of medical equipment donated by George Samson’s group, known to be friends of the mayor,” said Atty. Noy in a text message on Thursday.
Targeting indigents here, the city government is also set to build a CT scan and dialysis center.
