Wise ang Pabaha ni Pacquiao ng P21-M sa Batangas, Dagupan

 

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Tama lang ba ang pamumudmod ni presidential bet Manny Pacquiao ng tig P1, 500 cash at goods kada isa sa eight thousands na tao sa Batangas at Dagupan Cities?

Ang sagot ko:
Mura lang iyang halagang P12 million (7,000 at 1,000 katao sa Batangas at sa Dagupan multiplied by P1,000 and P500 food) sa isang may pera na presidential candidate. 

Sa GMA 7 national televsion four times a day 30 seconds advertisement ay nagkakahalaga na ng P1.5 M ang gagastusin niya. Limang araw na political ads lang iyan sa nasabing television. Mas mataas ang media hype ng pabaha ng pera sa mga tumitili, sumisigaw, at nagtutulakan na masa na mostly bobotantes.

 Iyang pamumudmud niya ng tig P1000 mas pinaguusapan iyan ng mga tao at mga media men sa radyo at sa TV ng ilang linggo. Nakaka piggy back siya diyan at walang bayad iyan.

Iyong banat ng mga kalaban ni Manny na nagbu vote-buying siya ay baseless. Ang ginagawa ng Senador ay part ng Constitutional Freedom of Expression habang wala pa ang national campaign period sa February 8 to May 7, 2022.

 Okay lang iyan as long na hindi niya sinasabi na iboboto ninyo siya kapalit ng pera.

BUMABAHA ANG PERA. Si world boxing icon and presidential candidate Manny Pacquiao (top photo clockwise) habang namumudmod ng P1,000 bill kada isa sa 7,000 katao sa Batangas City noong October 16. Noong October 26 nakita uli ang only eight division boxing champion of the world na nagpapabaha ng tig P1,000 bill sa 1000 na tumitili at sumisigaw na mga maralita sa Dagupan City (left photo below). Pag sinuma ang pera, roasted chicken, at five kilong bigas na binigay niya ito ay aabot sa more or less P12 million. Ilang daang milyon pa ang gagastusin ng Senador sa mga piling 146 cities sa Pilipinas?

Kung sino man ang nag advice sa kanya ng ganitong pamamaraan para makakuha ng boto sa mga dukha ay magaling. Kung tumaas ng 5% and poll stocks ni only eight world division boxing champ of the world sa September this year survey of Pulse Asia ( pinakamataas na spike sa lahat ng presidential candidates), mas tataas pa ba ang poll rating ni Pacman sa November poll? Pag tumaas ng another 5 % si Manny P. baka mag top siya sa November as the next President of the Philippines.
Hindi ko na siya puweding paglaruan ng mga mahihirap na questions hahahaha sa mga press conference. Huhulihin na ako ng Presidential Security Group pag nanalo siyang PRESIDINTI!

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Ito ang election offenses sa vote buying ayon sa Omnibus Election Code:

ARTICLE XXII.
Sec. 261. Prohibited Acts. - The following shall be guilty of an election offense

(a) Vote-buying and vote-selling. -

(1) Any person who gives, offers or promises money or anything of value, gives or promises any office or employment, franchise or grant, public or private, or makes or offers to make an expenditure, directly or indirectly, or cause an expenditure to be made to any person, association, corporation, entity, or community in order to induce anyone or the public in general to vote for or against any candidate or withhold his vote in the election, or to vote for or against any aspirant for the nomination or choice of a candidate in a convention or similar selection process of a political party.

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Kailan ba ang campaign period ng presidential and other national candidates? Di ba sa February 8 to May 7, 2022 ((Section 5 (a) R.R 7166 and Section 4, R.A. 7941).

Ano ang pinagbabawal dito ayon sa Section 109 ng Omnibus Election Code?

Prohibited donations by candidates, treasurers of parties or their agents. - No candidate, his or her spouse or any relative within the second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity, or his campaign manager, agent or representative shall during the campaign period, on the day before and on the day of the election, directly or indirectly, make any donation, contribution or gift in cash or in kind, or undertake or contribute to the construction or repair of roads, bridges, school buses, puericulture centers, medical clinics and hospitals, churches or chapels cement pavements, or any structure for public use or for the use of any religious or civic organization: Provided, That normal and customary religious dues or contributions, such as religious stipends, tithes or collections on Sundays or other designated collection days, as well as periodic payments for legitimate scholarships established and school contributions habitually made before the prohibited period, are excluded from the prohibition.

The same prohibition applies to treasurers, agents or representatives of any political party.

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Pacquiao gives P1.5-M Cash, Goods in Dagupan

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 DAGUPAN CITY – World boxing icon and Philippines presidential candidate Manny Pacquiao barnstormed this premier city in the four provinces’ Region-1 by distributing one thousand five hundred pesos in cash and goods to each of the more or less one thousand grateful residents here.

He was seen at past four o’clock in the afternoon yesterday in front of the covered public plaza here giving P1,000 bill to each of the members of the marginalized sector who were cuddling already their bag with five kilos of rice and roasted chicken of Chook to Go.

P1.5 –M MANNA. Senator Manny Pacquio - one of the presidential candidates for the next year’s election - gives P1,000 cash, roasted chicken, and five kilos of rice to each of the 1,000 marginalized residents of Dagupan City when he whistles stop in the city yesterday. This newspaper estimated that the only eight division boxing world champion shelled out P1.5 million to all the gifts he distributed. He done the same act in Batangas province eight days ago. (Photo credit: Public Information Office of Dagupan City)

This newspaper estimated that with one thousand people benefiting the cash and the five hundred pesos’ worth of goods, it would be one million five hundred thousand pesos from the personal pocket of the only eight-division world champion in the history of boxing.

Politicians running for the national office have been seen ingratiating with the people of this city and the other forty-four towns and three cities’ mammoth province of Pangasinan because of its gargantuan more than two million voters – the third highest in the Philippines after Cebu and Cavite among the 81 provinces in the country.

Simultaneous with Pacquiao’s arrival here was the visit at Barangay Pagal, San Carlos City in Pangasinan of reelective Senator Joel Villanueva.

He graced with city Mayor Julier Resuello the payout of 131 Tupad beneficiaries.

Tupad includes but are not limited to kasambahays, angkas drivers, Grab drivers, jeepney and other public utility vehicle's drivers, carinderia owners, vendors, dishwashers, senior citizens fit to work, and independent contractors. However, individuals aged from 17 below are not allowed to apply under the Anti-Child Labor Law.

The boxing icon and the author. Both hailed from Mindanao thus they exchanged notes here in Cebuano.

"Invite ka ng media friends natin interview ko siya kanina sa program ko. Nagpapa invite pa ng ibang media (men),” Bombo Radyo-Dagupan Senior Executive Edmund Abubo told this newspaper about the Senator's concern to cover his visit - a brownie point for his reelection bid next year in the Senate.

In March this year, former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano who aspired then to run for the presidency was seen giving grocery items and P500 cash to more or less 1,000 poor people who hailed from various villages in the bangus (milk fish) city.

Northern Watch Newspaper estimated that the cash and goods he doled out at P500 each too to be at a staggering P1,000,000.

“We were not given a stub by our barangay (village) official,” Joven Espino, a more than fifty years old mestizo and resident of one of the biggest villages here Pantal complained to the video of his Facebook page while panning with his mobile phone the roughly five hundred mostly members of the great unwashed who shoved and jostled with each other to avail of Pacquiao’s generosity but could not enter the locked gates of the plaza.

People have massed in the plaza as early as five o'clock in the morning for the scheduled distribution of cash and goods at two o’clock in the afternoon last Tuesday.

Pacquiao and entourage – many including pastors carried by a huge transport bus painted with his face, whole body, name, and slogans - arrived from Baguio City after lunch and proceeded to the office of Mayor Brian Lim.

The boxing icon, wife Jinkee, Pangasinan Fourth District Congressman Toff de Venecia, Councilor Celia Lim, and officials of the city stayed there for hours. Thereafter, the Sarangani Province resident proceeded to the second floor of the museum for a press conference with a bevy of national and local reporters.

“Granted, if you become Philippines’ president and former President Rodrigo Duterte is sued with the non-bailable murder cases in his narcotic’s war tokhang. Will you give him presidential pardon or you will allow him to rot in jail?” posed to him twice - because the boxing icon seemed not to comprehend it in English - by this writer who first asked the question among reporters there.

“Wala pa tayo sa mga bagay na iyan. Marami pang mga considerations diyan. At aaah.. at alam ninyo naman kung ano ang batas natin kailangan masunod iyan (We are not on that stage yet. We have many considerations there. And ahh... and you know what kind of laws we have that we have to follow),” he answered.

The world champion drew flack a week ago when he distributed cash and goods gratis in Batangas.

Air conditioned election campaign bus of Manny Pacquiao.

He defended it as he was doing it even before the filing of the certificate of candidacy (CoC) at the Commission on Election in the first week of October this year.

"Sabi niya hindi naman siya titigil na tumulong sa tao dahil lang ayaw ng ibang tao or binibigyan ng ibang kulay (He said he won't stop helping people just because some people are not in favor of it or just because some people are maligning it)," said lawyer Nikki de Vega, the senator's legal counsel and spokesperson. 

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Tax Bosses in Region-1 Reshuffled

 

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Three top chiefs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Region-1 have been reassigned as far as Pampanga province.

In the Revenue Travel Assignment Order (RTAO) released previously from the office of the BIR Commissioner in Quezon City, Revenue District Office No. 3 (La Union Province) Chief Charmaine C. dela Torre was assigned to a bigger collecting RDO No. 21A in North Pampanga, RDO No. 4 Chief Ernesto Mangabat (Central Pangasinan) was designated the new head of RDO No. 2 (Ilocos Sur Province), and RDO No. 5 Chief Gil Vinluan (Western Pangasinan) replaced Mangabat in Central Pangasinan.

TOP TAX MEN. Top executives of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Region 1 have been reshuffled where (top photo clockwise) Revenue District Office No. 2 Chief Charmaine Caday- dela Torre of La Union Province was assigned to Pampanga Province, RDO Chief No. 5 Gil Vinluan of Western Pangasinan is now the top honcho of BIR Central Pangasinan, and RDO Chief No. 4 Ernesto Mangabat of Central Pangasinan replaced the RDO No. 2 chief based in Ilocos Sur Province.

The BIR Region -1 - composed of four provinces - has a tax goal this year of P13 billion.

In October this year’s RTAO, it reshuffled Assistant RDO No. 4 Chief Aldrin Camba of Central Pangasinan, Assistant RDO No. 5 Chief Marinel Tandoc of Western Pangasinan, and Assistant RDO No. 6 Chief Lolita Salayog of Eastern Pangasinan. They have been assigned in Abra Province as officer-in-charge RDO Chief, Assistant RDO No. 1 Chief in Ilocos Norte, and RDO No.17-B in Tarlac Provice, respectively.
Those who replaced Camba, Tandoc, and Salayog were Assistant RDO Chief Susana C. Cabanayan - who came from RDO No.1 in Ilocos Province -, Charlito S. Samson, and the Assistant RDO No. 3 Chief from La Union.

The one who replaced the Assistant RDO in La Union came from Baguio City’s RDO.

Abono Unfazed on Rampages of Espino’s Backed API

 

WAR OF PARTYLISTS IN P’SINAN

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

ROSALES, Pangasinan -  The chair of the seasoned Pangasinan’s homegrown Abono PartyList (AP) is not threatened by the proliferation of the tarpaulins of Abante Pangasinan Ilokano (API) Party List with the prominent face of former governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. drawing supporters in the many towns and cities of Pangasinan.

Rosendo So, chairman too of the nationally renowned Samahang Industriya ng Magsasaka (SINAG), was unperturbed because AP has clearer direction and vigorous on its advocacy like the fights against government neglect and incompetence compared to other party lists.

“Hindi naman. Mostly iyong sinusulong natin at least may direction. At kung makita mo tayo lang ang very vocal na nagsasalita about ng hindi tumulong ang gobyerno (No we are not threatened. Most of what we advocated have directions. If you see we are the most vocal about government’s negligence),” the farmers advocate So told Northern Watch Newspaper.

Despite the visibility of Espino, a former congressman, in the posters, he is not a nominee of API because of the prohibition of the Party-List System Act (Republic Act 7941).

It says “The list shall not include any candidate for any elective office or person who has lost his bid for an elective office in the immediately preceding election” (Section 8 paragraph 2). 

He lost his 2019 congressional reelection in the Fifth District with a slim votes against Binalonan outgoing mayor Ramon “Monmon” Guico, III. That poll was seen as an upset in Pangasinan’s politics because of the seeming invincibility of the former Police Colonel and alumnus of the Philippine Military Academy in winning elections after he became a Second District Congressman in 2007.

This writer got the five nominees of API in case it wins one to three seats in the House of Representatives in the May 9, 2022 election.

The nominees from the first to the fifth are Michael M. Morden, Maricel B. Gotuc, Antonio P. Perez, Glaiza Mae M. Onia, and Enrico Y. Siahon.

Morden used to be a protégée of So when the AP was a nascent party upon its victory in the 2007 election and dominating the polls since then to the present in the forty-four towns and four cities’ Pangasinan.

Abono’s nominees from first to fourth are former Congressman Robert Raymund “Eskimo” Estrella, Ronald Alan So, Lenny Torres, and Oftociano "Anong" Manalo.

The disqualification of Espino to be a nominee based on the statute create speculations among political kibitzers that he can substitute former Board Member Clemente “Nino” Arboleda against Ramon “Monching” Guico, Jr. for the congressional diadem of the Fifth District.

Espino and So were political allies before when the former competed with Jamie Agbayani and former Pangasinan Second District Congressman Victor Agbayani in the 2007 and 2010 governorship races, respectively, in the mammoth province. Espino defeated the spouses whose father Aguedo reigned as governor for decades of the Northern Luzon’s province.

APL Chair So in those years were preoccupied strategizing in making the party prominent in Pangasinan and winning its first two seats in Congress in the 2010, 2013, and 2016 national electiona.

The fallout between the two allies started when then Governor Espino in the middle of 2000s increased the real property taxes of the local government unit that upset So because it could affect the economic welfare of his constituents the farmers.

The relationship worsen when So and former Pangasinan Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco  - another Espino’s supporter – joined forces for Cojuangco’s bid for the governorship in 2016 against Espino’s son and namesake the present governor.

So said the loss of the second nominee of APL in Congress through Rep. Vini Nola A. Ortega in the 2019 election was due to the poor performance of the Ortegas in reaching and winning the hearts and minds of the voters in La Union Province.

In the 2016 election the political family’s Ortegas delivered 150, 000 votes to the party in that province but in the 2019 election they chalked up a lethargic 70,000 votes that cost them a congressional seat.

Abono Partylist Founder and Chairman Rosendo So.

“It was due to the death threats on their family they were not able to go public and campaigned effectively,” the Abono chairman said.

The electoral performances of AP can be seen on the 2.12% voters share in the total voters of the party lists in the 2007 election where it got one representative in Congress, 2.58%, 2.80%, and 2.26% voters shares in the 2010, 2013, and 2016 polls, respectively, where it got two congressmen in each of these elections, and the 1.36% share in the 2019 poll where it settled for a lone representative through Conrad Estrella, III – the older brother of Robert Raymund.

    The parties, organizations, and coalitions receiving at least two percent (2%) of the total votes cast for the party-list system shall be entitled to one seat each:  provided, that those garnering more than two percent (2%) of the votes shall be entitled to additional seats in proportion to their total number of votes: provided, finally, that each party, organization, or coalition shall be entitled to not more than three (3) seats (Section 11 paragraph 5, R.A 7941).

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Can Quiambao, Guico, Others Beat the Espinos?

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

The title of this article should be: “Can Quiambao, Guico, Celeste, and Cojuangco beat the Espinos?” But brevity dictates in crafting a headline that I have to contend with the eight words above. This collaboration is about Bayambang Billionaire Mayor Cezar Quiambao – the bête noire of the Espinos' political patriarch former Pangasinan Fifth District Congressman Amado T. Espino, Jr. - the district’s present Representative Ramon “Monmon” Guico, III (the guy who beat Espino), Pangasinan First District former Representative and come backing congressional bet Art Celeste, and former Pangasinan Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco.

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“Saan ka ngayon, To’? (Where are you now, To’?), “bronze skinned Marlboro ciggie chomping radio announcer and newspaper reporter Atong Remogat - this columnist affectionately called media heartthrob - authoritatively inquired in the phone. It was around 10 o’clock in the morning and the last day (October 8 ) of the deadline of the filing of the certificate of candidacy (CoC).

BARNSTORMING THRU CHOPPERS. One of the two helicopters used by Pangasinan governorship bet Ramon "Monmon" Guico, III and billionaire Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao in their quest to beat the political juggernaut family of seasoned politician Amado T. Espino, Jr. Guico is the sitting Congressman of the Fifth District who beat with a slim margin Espino in their congressional tussle. The smaller helicopter used by Guico is the P40 million Robinson 44 while the four blades bigger chopper is the modern Bell helicopter worth P200 million bought in cash by Quiambao. Former Congressman Mark Cojuangco - who is pitted with Pangasinan Second District Rep. Jumel Espino - used a Robinson 44 helicopter, too.

“Pabalik na ako sa Dagupan City (I’m bound to Dagupan City),” I told him while I was driving 80 kilometres per hour in the stretches of Barangay Manat, Binmaley town to the boundary of the Bangus City to catch the congressional and provincial candidates who were filing at the Commission on Election their CoC in the last day – whose date ‘8’ had significant signs of luck.

We met in the car park of Sigay Fiestahan in Binmaley where he left his tiny black Toyota car that lifted another bulky veteran radio commentators Harold Barcelona and Sammy Lusalla of DWPR and Erning Cayabyab of a Manila based tabloid. They embarked on my bigger car and we dusted off to Bugallon town.

“Mark Cojuangco, Monmon (Guico), Cezar Quiambao, Art (Celeste) are in their helicopters going to Bugallon to accompany Ric ( Orduña ) to file his CoC. We are going to cover it,” Atong, who now drove my car, told me.

One of the two helicopters used by Pangasinan governorship bet Ramon "Monmon" Guico, III and billionaire Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao in their quest to beat the political juggernaut family of seasoned politician Amado T. Espino, Jr. Guico is the sitting Congressman of the Fifth District who beat with a slim margin Espino in their congressional tussle. The smaller helicopter used by Guico is the P40 million Robinson 44 while the four blades bigger chopper is the modern Bell helicopter worth P200 million bought in cash by Quiambao. Former Congressman Mark Cojuangco who is pitted with Pangasinan Second District Rep. Jumel Espino used a Robinson 44 helicopter, too.

“Mayor Cezar even asked me to ride in his chopper (a huge four or five blades utility P400 million latest modern Bell helicopter Quiambao bought cash as what Congressman Guico told me) with Mark Cojuangco but I could not leave these three old men,” he referred to the three reporters.

“Mabuti di ka sumakay sa helicopter nila. Baka ihulog ka nila wala na akong heartthrob na media man na kaibigan,” I jested while the crowd – the “geriatrics” who still quest to be famous in the elusive perch of the media profession - in my car erupted into guffaw.

To make the long story short, here what ensued between the race of the two helicopters and my car:

- The two helicopters (it should be three as Cojuangco and Guico used to have their own P40 million each Robinson 44 choppers while Quiambao used the bigger Bell Helicopter) were faster than our car thus we did not see the filing of the CoC of former Mayor Ric – cheered up by the Opposition lead by governorship bet Guico – against incumbent Mayora Priscilla Espino.

Espino is the mother of Governor Amado Espino, III and wife of former Guv and Congressman Amado Jr.;

- The choppers flew to Urbiztondo where the opposition bigwigs would witness reelective mayor Martin Raul Sison filed his CoC. He is the son of ole man Espino’s former man Friday turned bitter nemesis former Board Member and congressional candidate Raul Sison;

- Atong, a bossom friend of Orduña, brought us instead to his farm residence in Barangay Portix. “To’, that kubo there was where Governor Espines (the patriarch’s moniker) and Mayor Ric and Colonel Pat (Orduna) mapped up how to win the governorship of Pangasinan,” Atong – a former scarred 6-ton 6×6military truck driver Army man calling me by my Ilonggo nickname Toto (not Mortz but I relished it hahaha!) and pointed to me the historical shack where the friendship of the political family Orduñas and Espino ( a PMYer and former Congressman) have been further buttressed until its ugly fall out where the two brothers (Ric and Espino’s protegee Police Lt. Colonel Pat) have been seen with the Opposition (first with Art Celeste failed attempt to trounce out Governor Amado, III in the 2019 election) and their support to Guico’s present attempts to frustrate the young Espino’s last term in the May 9, 2022 election.

Mayor Quiambao and his young beauteous actress- wife Mary Clare Phyllis “Niña” Jose-Quiambao

- Ric Orduna told us despite his inferior campaign kitty against the political juggernaut of the Espinos, Mayora had a led votes of 3,964 only among the 31, 458 voters in the 2019 election.

- He said Celeste wanted to kneel before him to reconsider his retirement and dethrone the Espino in Bugallon where he used to be a nine years hizzoner. “Pag di ka tumakbo dito baka matabangan na si Mark sa laban niya kay Jumel (Congressman Espino – younger brother of the Guv) at si Monmon sa governorship,”Ordona told us how he was emphatically persuaded by Art to wear again his political gloves.

- With the financial backing of Cojuangco and the billionaire Quiambao (a high school classmate of the patriarch Espino who became his enemy), does it mean Mayora Espino is beatable?;

- With the gung-ho involvement of Quiambao and his generosity to finance the campaign of Guico versus Governor Espino, does it mean a chance to beat the Guv as Guico and Quiambao collaborate to end the choo-choo train of the Espinos in Pangasinan politics?

Here’s how moneyed Quiambao when I covered him recently on his young actress wife Nina Jose throwing her hat for the mayorship of burgeoning Bayambang town. Excerpts of what he said in the air conditioned town's gym: “The mayor told his supporters that he will be joining the private sector again and ventures in a $1 billion or P50 billion investment for a power plant in Benguet Province. He said that he needs to continue remitting hundreds of millions of pesos for the town especially his P5 billion bamboo project that could generate more jobs for the people here. Mahigit limang bilyon (pesos) ang kailangang kapital para matapos ang aking panaginip sa programa ng kawayan". One of the gargantuan projects that came from the private fund of the billionaire-mayor is the colossal St. Vincent Ferrer Statue. The P250 million statue was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the tallest bamboo sculpture in the world.

- Here what Quiambao told the crowd during Art Celeste quest but poorly financed bid (My source told me a miniscule P250 million only) for the governorship: "When Amado T. Espino, Jr. ran for congressman in the Second District of Pangasinan I lent him a chopper. I gave him financial support. Pero wala iyon: The most significant thing was when I introduced him to Atong Ang".

- Dr. Quiambao, a recipient of an honoris causa, and his family owned Stradom, Land Registration Systems, Inc. and others.These corporations gave hundreds of millions of pesos local taxes to the 129, 011 populated historical town.

The generosity of Quiambo bloodied the noses of the bets of his classmate Espino whenever they challenged his candidates and when Espino’s beneficiary former Ric Camacho challenged him in the 2019 mayorship poll.

- Because of Quiambao disliked to his classmate, I heard from political connections that he poured hundreds of millions of pesos to the campaign chest of Guico – a multi-millionaire but whose kitty will be divided as his father Monching will tussle for the Fifth District congressional post with a handsome moneyed former Board Member Nino Arboleda – a kasimanwa and Espino’s ally. I wrote before that a governorship candidate who wanted to beat the Espinos in the race to the Capitol in Lingayen needs a billion of pesos because the majority of the two million bobotantes or voters in Pangasinan know only one thing: Oodles of money” in the eve of the election.

My poser: Can Quiambo, Guico, and Cojuangco rais

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16 Brgys. sa Aguilar Nabigyan ng Mitsubishi Utility Vehicles ni Sagles

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

AGUILAR, Pangasinan – Bawat isang barangay dito ay nakatangap kamakailan lang ng tag isang milyon peso na puting Mitsubishi Utility Van.

Sinabi ni Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles na wala siyang pinili noong ibinigay niya ito sa 16 na barangays oposisyon man o suporter ang mga kapitan doon. Aniya ito ay para magamit nila ang sasakyan sa kanilang operasyon at sa mga iba’t ibang pangangailangan ng mga kanilang constituents.

UTILITY VEHICLES. Sixteen brand new L-300 Mitsubishi white utility vehicles have been turned over recently to 16 barangay leaders in Aguilar, Pangasinan by Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles (right photo). Each of the village chiefs and their officials received the keys from the mayor as they posed for the customary pictorial at the multi-purpose gym of the rustic town. The village officials will be using the vehicles for public functions and social services of their constituents.

“Wala silang masasabi kasi lahat binigyan ko, di tayo namili. Kako nga sa kanila, ako hindi masyadong mapulitiko huwag ninyo akong pulitikuhin kasi para sa inyo naman iyan hinde para sa akin yan,” wika niya sa Northern Watch Newspaper.

Hinango niya ang halagang P16 million sa P32 million na IRA.

Sabi ng Alkalde hinde naman pinigilan ng mga miyembro ng halos oposisyon na Sanggunian Bayan ang balak niyang pagbili ng mga sasakyan.

“Wala ng kaso iyon,” ani niya matapos aprobahan din ng mga mambabatas ang mga projekyo niyang nakabinbin noong mga nakalipas na buwan at taon.

Mga ibang proyekto na nakamit na ng Administrasyong Sagles ay ang pagbili ng bagong dump truck, bagong ambulansiya – pandagdag sa isa dito – kung saan ang pondo ay galing sa P2.3 million na panalo ng bayan sa Seal of Good Governance noong isang taon, bagong plaza, bagong fire truck, bodega o building ng National Food Authority kung saan ang local government unit dito ay nag-donate ng lupang pagtitirikan nito, at iba pa.

Ani Sagles ang proposed year 2022 budget ng third class town sa susunod na taon ay P229, 812, 015 – lumubo ito ng P70 million kumpara sa kasalukuyang taon P160, 178, 604 budget.

“Our internal revenue allotment in 2021 is P160, 178,604.00 while it will increase to P222, 098,015.00 next year. Our local taxes in 2021 is P6, 917,000.00 our estimated local taxes in 2022 will be P7, 714, 000.00,” sabi niya.

Itong pag laki ng allocation na magbigay dagdag serbisyo sa mga taga Aguilar ay hahangu-in sa pinalawak na buwis na masisingil ng national government ayon sa Mandanas Ruling ng Korte Suprema.