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Virtual looting continues at city hall – Pamintuan
By Ding Cervantes
May 31, 2010
ANGELES CITY – Incoming mayor Edgardo Pamintuan will assume his post in city hall bereft of 28 brand new official vehicles, as well as computers and other office equipment which were carted off recently in the wee hours of the morning by persons allegedly identified with outgoing Mayor Francis Nepomuceno.
Pamintuan sought the help of city police director Senior Supt. Danny Bautista to secure official properties at city hall, even as he deplored a recent city council resolution donating to local barangay chairmen and other parties a total of 28 brand new vehicles of the city government.
“Please protect and preserve whatever is left of properties at city hall,” Pamintuan told Bautista in a text message.
He said from 3:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. for at least three nights last week, persons identified with Nepomuceno were seen carting off properties from city hall offices. One witness said among those carted away were computers and high powered arms which the city government had bought for the local police.
Pamintuan urged Bautista to double police force at the city hall and “now allow them to be influenced”.
“After congratulating me, Blue Boy (Mayor Nepomuceno) instructed his people in the council to donate and distribute 28 brand new service vehicles to the barangay captains who supported him,” he lamented. The council passed the resolution the other Friday.
Pamintuan said that under the resolution, the mayor brother Robin Nepomuceno, who is barangay chairman of Cutut, “got five vehicles including the Grandia official vehicle of the mayor.”
He said that earlier, he had requested for a special audit team from the national Commission on Audit (COA) to perform an audit at city hall.
Punto failed to reach Nepomuceno, his administrator Mark Allen Sison and Bautista for comment on Pamintuan’s report.
Nepomuceno (Nationalist People’s Coalition) lost in his reelection bid to Pamintuan (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) who got an edge of some 27,000 votes over him. Pamintuan used to be presidential adviser on external affairs, chairman of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council, and president of the Luzon North Railways Corp.
In letters dated last May 18 and 19, Nepomuceno asked the city council to hold a special session and pass resolutions authorizing him to donate cars and other vehicles of the city government to various beneficiaries.
The cars, mostly bought last year, consisted of Mitsubishi, Toyota, Isuzu, Nissan brands. The vehicles included on Isuzu dump truck.
“This is virtually raiding the city coffers before his (Nepomuceno’s) exit and is in violation of our agreement on orderly transition,” Pamintuan said.
The letters of Nepomuceno identified the beneficiaries which included barangay chairmen who had supported his reelection bid.
Other beneficiaries were identified by Nepomuceno as SK Federation through Carl John Miranda, Commission on Audit officers Edelmira Gonzalez and Amelia Manabat and Abel Pamintuan of Kapanalig, Inc.
Regional Trial Court judges Omar Viola and Gerardo Santos were listed as prospective recipients of a Toyota Avanza and a Toyota Innova, respectively..
A Toyota Avanza will also go to Angeles City Public Schools Credit Cooperative through one Manuel Duenas, and yet another such car is slated to be turned over to the Philippine Elementary Schools Principal Association through Dr. Enriqueta Tayao, Nepomuceno’s letter on the resolutions said.
Pamintuan deplored the donation move, saying “the motive of the donations is highly questionable.”
“It is not only meant to disable the incoming administration but also to bizarrely reward people who caused his trouncing in the last elections,” he said.
Earlier, Vega and three city councilors filed plunder charges against Nepomuceno and his city administrator Mark Sison for allegedly overpricing by P92 million the purchase of a five hectare land in Barangay Mining here for a proposed sports complex.
Pamintuan sought the help of city police director Senior Supt. Danny Bautista to secure official properties at city hall, even as he deplored a recent city council resolution donating to local barangay chairmen and other parties a total of 28 brand new vehicles of the city government.
“Please protect and preserve whatever is left of properties at city hall,” Pamintuan told Bautista in a text message.
He said from 3:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. for at least three nights last week, persons identified with Nepomuceno were seen carting off properties from city hall offices. One witness said among those carted away were computers and high powered arms which the city government had bought for the local police.
Pamintuan urged Bautista to double police force at the city hall and “now allow them to be influenced”.
“After congratulating me, Blue Boy (Mayor Nepomuceno) instructed his people in the council to donate and distribute 28 brand new service vehicles to the barangay captains who supported him,” he lamented. The council passed the resolution the other Friday.
Pamintuan said that under the resolution, the mayor brother Robin Nepomuceno, who is barangay chairman of Cutut, “got five vehicles including the Grandia official vehicle of the mayor.”
He said that earlier, he had requested for a special audit team from the national Commission on Audit (COA) to perform an audit at city hall.
Punto failed to reach Nepomuceno, his administrator Mark Allen Sison and Bautista for comment on Pamintuan’s report.
Nepomuceno (Nationalist People’s Coalition) lost in his reelection bid to Pamintuan (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) who got an edge of some 27,000 votes over him. Pamintuan used to be presidential adviser on external affairs, chairman of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council, and president of the Luzon North Railways Corp.
In letters dated last May 18 and 19, Nepomuceno asked the city council to hold a special session and pass resolutions authorizing him to donate cars and other vehicles of the city government to various beneficiaries.
The cars, mostly bought last year, consisted of Mitsubishi, Toyota, Isuzu, Nissan brands. The vehicles included on Isuzu dump truck.
“This is virtually raiding the city coffers before his (Nepomuceno’s) exit and is in violation of our agreement on orderly transition,” Pamintuan said.
The letters of Nepomuceno identified the beneficiaries which included barangay chairmen who had supported his reelection bid.
Other beneficiaries were identified by Nepomuceno as SK Federation through Carl John Miranda, Commission on Audit officers Edelmira Gonzalez and Amelia Manabat and Abel Pamintuan of Kapanalig, Inc.
Regional Trial Court judges Omar Viola and Gerardo Santos were listed as prospective recipients of a Toyota Avanza and a Toyota Innova, respectively..
A Toyota Avanza will also go to Angeles City Public Schools Credit Cooperative through one Manuel Duenas, and yet another such car is slated to be turned over to the Philippine Elementary Schools Principal Association through Dr. Enriqueta Tayao, Nepomuceno’s letter on the resolutions said.
Pamintuan deplored the donation move, saying “the motive of the donations is highly questionable.”
“It is not only meant to disable the incoming administration but also to bizarrely reward people who caused his trouncing in the last elections,” he said.
Earlier, Vega and three city councilors filed plunder charges against Nepomuceno and his city administrator Mark Sison for allegedly overpricing by P92 million the purchase of a five hectare land in Barangay Mining here for a proposed sports complex.
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