Mayor hides P60M loans from his constituents

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

These left-leaning Makabayan blocs’ Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Representative AntonioTinio, Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate, Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan and Emmi De Jesus, Anakpawis Rep. Fernando Hicap and Kabataan Rep. Terry Ridon should be suspended from the House of Representatives because of their unethical and assailable acts inside the joint session of Congress in the recent State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Aquino III.

Anarchic leftist Congressmen in the Philippines. PHOTO CREDIT: Rappler.com

Pero ano ba naman itong si Senate President Franklin Drilon, ginaya rin ang pamba-baboy nitong mga Komunista na congressmen when he booed them on the microphone na dinig na dinig habang ako ay nag ma-mountain climbing sa kabundukan ng Mt. Tralala.
Nasa rostrum pa naman kayo Senator kasama si President Aquino at Speaker Sonny Belmonte, dapat you showed grace and restraint even these idiot leftist demagogues have been somersaulting with their communist antics.
Alam niyo Juana Change, este,   Senator Drilon para na rin ninyong ni level ang sarili ninyo sa kababuyan ng mga makakaliwang congressmen na lahat na lang na nangyayari dito sa Pinas ay mali at sila na lang ang laging tama.

Senate President Franklin Drilon

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Dapat kay Speaker Belmonte ay tuluyan ng suspendihen ng Ethics Committee itong mga maka-kaliwa na nag sisigaw, nagtatalak, at nag wawagay-way ng anti-Aquino slogans at banners sa loob ng plenary just after the president spoke his SONA.
Tingnan niyo itong si RepresentativeTinio ng ACT, dapat ginugulpi ito, este, dapat ginugulgol nito ang attention sa mga teachers na constituents niya lalo na sa private schools na tumatangap ng napaka babang sahod na between P5000 to P10,000 kada buwan.
 Pero ano ang ginagawa nitong diyaske? Ayon, busy sa pag file ng kaso sa pagpapahinto ng two military agreements natin sa Japan. Itong Memorandum on Defense Cooperation and Exchanges and Japan-Philippines Joint Declaration: A Strengthened Strategic Partnership for Advancing the Shared Principles and Goals of Peace, Security and Growth in the Region and Beyond  ay makakatulong para hindi kaagad agad tayo masakop ng China na andiyan na sa mga isla natin malapit lang sa Provinces of Zambales at Pangasinan.
Bakit hind gayahin ng ACT ang ABONO Party List na busy sa pag la-lobby sa kapwa congressmen and senators na gawing non-bailable ang smuggling ng agriculture products na worth P5 million and above? Mas productive na act itong ginagawa ng ABONO that genuinely represent its constituents unlike sa fake at misdirected representation nitong ACT ni Tinio at ibang pang maka Komunista na congressmen na anay sa buhay.

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Since the 2016 election is just around the corner, the mayor in this first class town wanted to borrow P60 million from the Development Bank of the Philippines for a central transportation terminal.

Since the local government unit (LGU) has been paying the monthly amortization worth millions of pesos of its previous loans at the other government bank the hizzoner tries to hide from his constituents the resolution by the Sangguniang Bayan (town council) empowering him to transact loans at the DBP by not publishing the resolution in the newspaper of general circulation.

“When the loan was approved by the bank and the lot was purchased where the owner did not appear but only his Deed of Sale in a land sale that is likened to the infamous Awai Deal in Dagupan City, a resident of the town questioned at the Regional Trial Court the illegal loan that did not meet the  newspaper publication requirement as mandated by law,” a source, privy to the seeming anomalous act, said.

When the mayor learned that there was a civil complaint at the RTC, he frantically published the resolution at a newspaper.

“Ang problema na release na iyong loan, nabili na iyong lupa na overpriced. So how can be the loan be valid when the publication that should be met before had been published after the sale of the land and approval by the bank of the loan?” my source posed to me.

“Pero paano na-ireleased ng DBP iyan. The manager there would be asking for the resolution, the newspaper publication, and other requirements before he or she released the P60 million to the local government unit,” I posed.

“Alam mo naman puweding nabigyan iyong manager ng milyon na parte niya para lang ma release ang loan,” the source explained.

Until now I could not fathom how incompetent or callous was the manager of that bank in case this allegation was true. He would be sued and sacked for his patent and gross actuation. 
Why? In case somebody sue the mayor on this transaction reeking with anomalies like the absence of the right publication, the LGU could be spared in paying the amortization of the loan to the bank after the court sided with the petitioner.
Geez, where would the bank owner recoup its millions of pesos? Surely the assets of the mayor and the bank manager would not be enough to pay him in case the loans have been spent on the projects.

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