Vital contracts that involve prime assets of the provincial government are nowhere to be found, causing the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to stall action on proposed legislations deemed to be necessarily guided by the otherwise missing official records.
Provincial Board Members Alfonso Damalerio II and Amalia Tirol prayed the subject documents may have merely been misplaced by their custodians and not totally lost to sheer neglect.
At least two disappeared contracts were mentioned in the SP session on Tuesday---those respectively on the private use of the government lots presently occupied by the Philippine Long Distance Telecommunications (PLDT) beside the Red Cross building and the Lions Club Children’s Playground within the compound of the St. Joseph Cathedral.
The public utilities committee chaired by Damalerio has wanted to see the memorandum of agreement or any contract between the capitol and telephone giant owing to the latter’s application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) now pending at the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in Manila.
In like manner, the committee on government properties headed by Tirol has been eager to scan the agreement between the province and Lions on heels of the request of the Diocese of Tagbilaran to take over the management and maintenance of the playground beside the church.
Damalerio’s committee needs to know the crucial terms and conditions in the contract with PLDT because the firm has reportedly unpaid rentals to the government amounting to some P8 million.
In a separate interview, Provincial Administrator Tomas Abapo, Jr. recalled that there was a proposal then to charge the capitol telephone accounts against the province’s collectibles from PLDT.
PLDT wants to operate and maintain telecommunication services, including information and communication technology (ICT), in areas nationwide not yet covered by its CPCN and to charge rates, according to the NTC notice to the SP on the firm’s application.
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