Ex-Mayor Camacho, Chua Indict by Omb. – Mayor Niña’s 100 Days Report

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

BAYAMBANG, Pangasinan – The Ombudsman indicted a former mayor here and a Chinese businessman for conspiracy in violating the Anti-Graft & Corrupt Practices Act as highlighted in the video posted at Facebook in the 100 Days Report of Mayor Mary Clare Phyllis “Niña” Jose-Quiambao.

“Naglabas ng ulat ang Ombudsman na desisyon noong July 27, 2022 na naglalahad at nakahanap ng probable cause laban kay former Mayor Ricardo Camacho at Willie Chua sa kanilang pagsasabwatan at paglabag sa Anti-Graft & Corrupt Practices Act”.

ULAT SA BAYAN. Bayambang Mayor Mary Clare Phyllis “Niña” Jose-Quiambao speaks before her constituents at the town's event center of her 100 Days Report upon assumption into office.

It said there that former provincial legal officer lawyer Geraldine Baniqued was fined with her three months’ salaries because of her negligence to defend the local government unit here on its case in the Bayambang Central School (BCS).

“Asahan ng bawat Bayambangueños na ilalaban ng administrasyon ang paaralang nabibilang sa bawat isa sa atin”.

The BCS located in the poblacion area was gutted by fire in a suspicious manner in the wee hour of June 2012. It included a 1912 American era building dubbed as Gabaldon – protected against destruction under the Heritage Law of the Philippines.

Former Parents Teacher Association President Filipinas Alcantara told Northern Watch Newspaper in January 30, 2016 that when he met former Department of Education Secretary Armin Luistro, the latter told her that the Gabaldon was either demolished or burned.

Mayor Jose-Quiambao highlighted in her “Ulat sa Bayan” her thrusts and accomplishments in the last 100 days after she assumed office in this 77-village’s town in June 30, 2022. They are the following:

-          Education for All Her Constituents

-          Protection of Women and Children

-          Health Benefits for Everybody

-          Improvement of the Agriculture Sector

-          Employment and Livelihood for Everybody

-          Faithful and Efficient Services of the Workers to the town’s LGU.

One of her thrusts, she cited, is to see all the school age constituents educated through the generosity of the Kasama Kita sa Barangay Foundation, Inc. (KKBFI) and Nina’s Care Foundation (NCF). 21,000 umbrellas have been given to elementary and high school students to protect them during the rainy days.

She donates all her monthly salaries to the local school board that gives fund to the schools here.

The Quiambao Administration opened this October a municipal museum.

“Ito lang ang maipakita sa publiko ang makita na kasaysayan, kuwento, at kultura ng ating bayan,” Mayor Jose-Quiambao disclosed about the town that was once declared by President Emilio Aguinaldo as the 5th Capital of the Revolutionary Philippine Republic.

The burgeoning first class town continues to give free health services to ease the economic woes felt by her constituents. They are free medical consultations, laboratory, diagnostic services, anti-rabies vaccines for animals, barangay treatments, new born and child services, family planning, information and education campaign caravan, tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) counselling, and many more.

The Quiambao-Sabangan (Vice Mayor Ian Camille C. Sabangan) Administration remains vigilant against the lurking danger of the Covid-19. It continues to disinfect public places here, the implementation of the no-face-mask – no-entry policy, continuation of the Covid-19 inoculations, distribution of grocery packs and Covid-19 kits to those who found positive with the pandemic through the reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test. 

“Linggo-linggo minu-monitor ng ecological solid waste ang mga clean-up drives. Bali-bali sa wikang Pangasinan ay maganda. Para maging malinis, maaliwalas ang bayan sa pamamagitan ng pagkakaisa tungo sa ligtas at maayos na pamayanan,” she said about her Bali-Bali Bayambang’s program.

For the safety of the students, the Quiambao Administration gave countless gallons of alcohol and thermal scanners to the various schools here for the use of their students and teachers.

 On the protection of women and children, she cited her Abong na Aro (House of Love) where those who need help can find refuge, her programs on the welfare of the children, mayor’s action center, celebration of the Bayambang Youth Day, teenage pregnancy summit, Linggo ng Wika, to name a few.

She mentioned too the continues cooperation of her administration with the police to advance the welfare of the women and children like cases of harassment and rape against them.

Bayambang's Sangguniang Bayan (lawmaking body) Secretary Joel Camacho raises the august body's mace to start the session and the 100 Days Report of Mayor Nina Jose-Quiambao. 

The leadership of the LGU wants to make the agriculture sector here modern so it can expedite in uplifting the poor stocks of the farmers here.

“Una na riyan ang pagawa ng kalsada papuntang palengke upang mapabilis ang transportasyon. Napakalaking proyekto ang Pantol-to-San Gabriel farm-to-market-road na pormal nating sinulong noong Hulyo”.

She mentioned too the E-Agro.

Quiambao’s predecessor and husband former Mayor Cezar Quiambao told in a summit before that he was hell bent to see that comes year 2028 the monthly income of each of the families of the 129,011 populated (PSA 2020) central Pangasinan town will be P10,000.

He said the system financially backed by a venture of the public- private-partnership will lend money with miniscule interest to P50,000 or more to a farmer who tends a hectare of the corn, rice, or onion farm every four months from the time of planting and harvesting.

The E-Agro Economic System has four components’ Activity/Labor & Service, Land Preparation, Planting, and Fertilization (Labor) that could uplift the economics welfare of the downtrodden peasant.

 To buttress the livelihood of the people, Mayor Jose-Quiambao introduced the goat dairy project, the vaccination of 800 domestic animals owned by her constituents here, and the continuation of the dredging operation to reinvigorate the inland fisheries in some villages here.

The LGU desires that every Bayambangueño could be employed. One of the drives was the two job fairs where jobseekers here attended. The Quiambao Administration coordinates with the Department of Labor & Employment to assist the town on her endeavor.

“Bukod sa pagpunta ng treasury office sa mga barangay, naghanda na rin ng information materials tulad ng video upang mahikayat ang mamayan na magbayad ng kanilang buwis sa pamahalaan,” the video of the 100 Days Report highlighted the importance of paying religiously the taxes owed by the people here to the LGU so the latter can sustain the projects and programs for the general welfare here.