By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Kalabaw na kasali sa fiesta sa Ozamiz City
pinagbabaril ng mga pulis.
Kasalukuyang iniimbestigahan pa ng joint teams ng
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) at Criminal Investigation Detection
Group (CIDG) kung nang-agaw din ng baril ang kalabaw gaya ng mga drug pushers
na pinagpapatay ng mga alagad ng batas.
Here’s an excerpt of the news:
“CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A carabao that was part
of the activities of Ozamiz City’s annual fiesta ran amok on Saturday.
Witnesses said the carabao, a full grown male bull,
lost its temper when it was paraded around the Birhen sa Cotta grounds where
the final judging of street dancing also took place.
The street dancing competition was one of the
highlights of the Subayen Keg Subanen Festival”.
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A big time private contractor with the government told
me how he and public officials earn in a, say, ten million pesos
farm-to-market road in a town.
“15 percent lang ang tubo ko diyan. 15 percent bigay
ko sa congressman, 5 percent sa DPWH (Department of Public Works & Highway)
for the boys nila to divide, and 10 percent kay mayor,” he enumerated.
He cited that before he wins the bidding for the
project at the DPWH, he first get the nod of the other two bidders (required by
law) who would quote the first two highest bid to make the project so they
would lose while my source, who bids the lowest ten million project wins.
“I will give them P300 thousand to divide among them
or to those other bidders who are interested to the project”.
When I asked him how much he shell-out to the village
chief that host the farm-to-market road, he told me he gives the “kapitan”
P5000 as token of appreciation in signing the document to attest the program of
works in his barangay had already been done by his construction firm.
