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”.
***
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.
“Pag maganda ang mood ko at humirit ang kapitan na
bigyan din iyong mga kagawad (members of the village’s legislative council),
binibigyan ko sila ng P10 thousand”.
To quantify how government funds are pocketed, the
narrations say: More than 45 percent goes to those people I mentioned, while
the Republic of the Philippines settle for the more than 50 percent or more
than P5 million of the P10 million farm-to-market road from the taxpayers’
monies.
This scenario of how the public monies, be it P10
million or 100 million are divided is endemic all over the Philippines.
Many of these government officials would justify that
they did not pocket the monies of the government since the contractor gives his
personal fund to them.
Even that justification was partially true, it is
still grossly disadvantageous to the Republic since the people settle for a substandard
infrastructure.
Son of a gun, where do you think the contractor would
recoup those almost 50 percent he fed to those vultures so he wins the bid at
the DPWH until the time he chalked up the signature of a corrupt village chief
in the document attesting that the public work had been excellently done?
(You can read my selected columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and articles at Pangasinan News Aro. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)
Comments
TumugonBurahinDaniel Chao-waten
Daniel Chao-waten Lahat yung percentage na yan eh alam lahat yan kung bakit d mapigilan yan kaya sub-standard mga project, given yan na alam lahat kaya yan dapat bigyan ng pansin in aid of legislation na mawala yan,
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Catalino Rafanan Quilala
Catalino Rafanan Quilala di mawawala na kita nila sir daniel pag idinaan sa in aid of legislation di na masusulit yong gastos sa election hehe.
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Eiroid Sevein
Eiroid Sevein Tama ka jan brod, arranged bidding lang ang katapat ng mga yan.
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Alberto Caoili
Alberto Caoili Kelan matitigil ang kawalanghiyaan ng mga dorobong mga ito.. Mr President pls act on this...
Carlos Kiangan Dpa kasama jan para sa rebulosyonaryong tax sa NPA.kung mamalasin sunog p mga equipments
TumugonBurahinDenmark Suede It's an open secret. TPLEX project , accessors, BIR, RTC, DPWH ang mga kumita diyan 😝
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Lab Anque
Lab Anque Paano na ngayon sa bagong administration 75% na siguro ang parti ng gobyerno? Malaking pagbabago na iyan. Mas maganda kung 99% ng funds ang magamit sa project para hindi na substandard. Long term ang pakinabang.
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Mortz Marcelo Ortigoza
Mortz Marcelo Ortigoza Pag 95% na ang shtare ng government kuya Labs, wala ng congressman o mayor na tatakbo sa election he he. Talo sila sa gastos sa election at patronage sa mga indigents who go to their houses everyday