1) P54. 6 million kickbacks
- P1.4 million in one month or P18.2 million in year that includes the workers’
13th Month Pay, or P54.6 million in his three years’ term if
out of the 400 public personnel half of them are “ghost” employees who received
a P7,000 average monthly salary.
“Have you heard about a third class town with 400
workers? According to critics that 400 personnel are bigger than those workers
of a city. A first class town in Pangasinan has more than 200 personnel only,
how come a third class town has this scandalous number?” another
mayor, who asked on conditioned of anonymity, posed to me.
2) P42 million kick
back from the 20% S.O.P or cut from the 20% of the P350 million or 20%
Development Fund (D.F) or infrastructure projects in the Hizzoner (His honor
the mayor) three years’ stint.
My Explanation: Since the Code mandates that 20% of D.F will be taken from
the Internal Revenue Allotment given yearly by the national government from its
collection of the national taxes, I put P350 million or 70% of the P500 million
annual budget a year. It must be noted that most cities or towns are dependent
to the IRA that dominates their budget, the lethargic local revenues from most towns
and cities usually come from real properties, licenses, permits, others.
Thus the P42 million kickbacks came from the P350 million
IRA multiplied by 20% S.O.P or cut equals P14 million a year multiplied by
three years’ equals P42 million.
3) P10.5 million in
three years from the 20% cut in the 5% Calamity Fund taken from the
half-a-billion pesos annual current budget.
My Explanation: The mayor can utilize 70% of the 5% percent (P25
million) Calamity Fund or Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund
(LDRRMF) even without the calamity or disaster by buying those overpriced,
say by 20 percent, training, purchasing life-saving rescue equipment like life
jackets, speed boat, vehicles, others.
The 70% is P17.5 million of the mentioned P250 million
calamity fund.
P25 million multiplied by 70% equals P17.5 million
multiplied by 20% cut equals P3.5 million yearly or P10.5 million in three
years’ stint.
4) P4.5 million
How about the 30% or P7.5 million allocations as
Quick Response Fund (QRF) or stand-by fund, approved by the legislature, for
relief and recovery programs to lessen the situation and living conditions of
people in communities or areas stricken by disasters?
He can still get P1.5 million as cut yearly or P4.5
million in one term from those overpriced by 20 percent purchased relief goods
like rice, canned sardines, noodles, eggs, bottled mineral water, blankets,
mats, mosquito nets, others because of his unquenchable greed to make money,
son of a gun!
5) P15 million in
three years or P5 million 20% kickback from the 5% (P25 million) of the
total budget for gender and development (GAD).
My Explanation: The GAD Code mandates the LGU to identify
programs, activities, and projects on gender development and fund them with the
5% taken from the P500, 000, 000 budgets.
6) Aside from the
percentages that I mentioned recently, the politico can still purloin some
percentages on the Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) in the
different offices on supplies where he, as the Bids & Award Committee
(BAC) chairman, in conspiracy with the treasurer, the accountant, the
budget officer, general services officer, and the head of office who are members
jack-up the prices of a laptop computer worth P30,000 to P120,000 apiece, and
others and even tinker with the 2% and 1% of the Discretionary Fund
and Special Education Fund (SEF), respectively, taken from the total collection
of the RPT in a year.
More
Shenanigans
He could earn also millions of pesos a year if there is
illegal number game jueteng, bookish of government runs Lotto, or payolas from
the owners of the perya or faire where gambling is being hosted, too, and the tienda
de baratillos.
To compute all the stolen monies as a result of the greed
and criminal mind of the mayor, he could have P42.2 million a year or a
staggering HesusMariaHusef P126.6 million in his three years
in office that he could use for his successful reelection bid.
This analysis could be the same with those governors in
the Philippines but with budget that runs to four billion pesos a year or a
total kickback of P337.6 million a year or P1, 012,800,000 in three years’
term.
“How about a congressman?” I posed.
My politician pal told me, the average S.O.P of a
congressman is only 10 percent that collaborate to what the District Engineer
or top honcho of the Department of Public Works & Highway who handled two
congressional districts.
With an average of P1 billion a year infrastructure
projects, the solon can pocket P100 million or P300 million in his three years’
term from the contractors who won in the bid those projects.
In case a congressman run for mayor versus a re-elective
chief executive of a town with P200 million annual appropriation budget a year
or a kickback of P50 million in three years, the solon has a lot of financial
resources to buy votes, pay for his or her supporters, and even finance those
very expensive advertisement aired by giant regional television stations'
ABS-CBN and GMA-7 to promote himself or herself even to those people in the
boondocks.
“That will be, Holly Molly, P300 million campaign fund
juggernaut versus the measly P50 million that could hardly afford an ad on TV,” I
exclaimed.
“It’s just okay in case the mayor loses to a moneyed
solon. It’s worse if he losses to a mayoralty challenger. The public works he
sent to the barangays and the relief goods he distributed during a calamity
came from the taxes of the people while his mayoralty rival uses his own monies
to ingratiate with the voters.
Nakakahiya pag
natalo ka ng challenger kasi ang ginagamit mo pera ng bayan,” my
politico pal remembered a town and a city mayor in my province were defeated by
rivals by a stroke of genius or because of their incompetence in protecting
their position.
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