O2 CEBU DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2008
Singson
44 MISSING LAMPPOSTS
Fines
to fight Fabmik rep: I gave Ø
dengue
OK to remove them
in brgys
pushed by Suzzane Salva-Alueta
CEBU City Mayor
CHIEF OF REPORTERS
Tomas Osmeña is ask-
ing barangay officials to
A
representative of
impose sanctions to Fabmik Construc-
those who would refuse tion and Equip-
to cooperate in their an-
ment Corp. that installed
ti-dengue clean up cam- the decorative lampposts
paign.
during the Association of
Osmeña said he Southeast Asian Nations
wanted the example of (ASEAN) Summit admit-
barangay Labangon fol- ted authorizing the "up-
lowed especially by rooting" of the 44 lamp-
barangays that now have
posts in Mandaue City last
the most number of year.
dengue cases in the city. Lawyer Romy Fuentes,
The Labangon a representative of Fabmik
barangay council passed
Construction and Equip-
a resolution mandating ment Corp., visited on
the imposition of a fine
of P500 for those who
would refuse to cooper-
Monday lawyer Augustini-
to Hermoso, legal officer
of the Department of Pub-
ate in their clean up lic Works and Highways in
campaign. A copy of the Central Visayas (DPWH
resolution will soon be 7).
submitted to the city Hermoso said Fuentes
council for approval. admitted authorizing re-
“That's (the passage moving the lampposts and
of the barangay resolu- apologized for not in-
tion is) very good. That
forming the DPWH of his
is how it is done in Sin- order last year.
gapore but only that the “He went there on his
fine is $500,” said Os- own, ingon siya na it was
meña. under his direction and
Councilor Gerardo said he felt sorry that we
Carillo, chairman of the were not informed when
City Disaster Coordi- they removed the posts. I
nating Council (CD- told him it was a blunder
CC), said that the pas- on their part,” Hermoso
sage of a resolution said.
alone cannot mandate The missing posts were
the imposition of fines. part of the 1,860 posts in- THE FOUNDATION of one of the 44 decorative lampposts (encircled)
He said there was a
stalled by Fabmik and is all that is left at A.C. Cortes Avenue going to the old Mactan
need for the Cebu City Gampik Construction in Mandaue bridge as seen in this file photo
Council to pass an ordi- 2006 for the 12th ASEAN
nance adopting the Summit.
barangay Labangon res- T h e s e a re t h e s a m e subject of an investigation overpriced.
DENGUE 39 posts, priced at P85,000 to by the Ombudsman on
Lawyers to launch ‘peso campaign’ for Lozada
by Nilda L. Gallo
REPORTER
CEBU City lawyers will not
only give moral support to
whistleblower Rodolfo
Lozada Jr. but will give also
financial support to the star
witness of the government's
scrapped controversial
broadband deal.
Lawyer Democrito Barce-
nas, one of the board mem-
bers of the Integrated Bar of
the Philippines (IBP) Cebu
LOZADA City Chapter, yesterday said
CDN FILE PHOTO
P300,000 each, which are suspicion that they were
Hermoso said Fuentes'
the group would launch a “We will give him finan-
“peso campaign” for Loza- cial support especially that
da. he (Lozada) already re-
He said that it is already turned the P500,000 given
the consensus of the city by the government,”said
lawyers to give financial sup- Barcenas.
port to Lozada because he Barcenas, a human rights
does not only need moral lawyer said that to formalize
support in testifying the their “peso campaign” he
“raging graft and corrup- would draft a resolutio.
tion” of the administration. Barcenas said the IBP will
A drop box will be placed write a check equivalent to
at the IBP office inside the the money earned from pe-
Capitol compound where so campaign to the so-called
lawyers could drop whatever "sanctuary fund" for Lozada
amount they could give. – AMRSP (Association of
COPYAEDITOR Dennis B.
NEWS
TODAY’S WEATHER
O
23 C to 30 C
O
METRO CEBU
Partly cloudy to at times cloudy
with isolated rainshowers
explanation why they re-
METRO MANILA
Partly cloudy to at times cloudy
moved the lampposts, with isolated rainshowers
worth P9.8 million, was so
long. “I had a hard time
M E T R O D AVA O
comprehending his rea-
son.” Mostly cloudy with scattered
rainshowers and thunderstorms
But the Fabmik official
maintained that the miss-
SUNRISE SUNSET
ing lampposts were al- 6:22 a.m. 5:58 p.m.
legedly not part of the
contract by DPWH. LOT TO 6 / 4 2
Hermoso said he also
found unbelievable the 19 10 04 24 30 16
ANY ORDER
claim of Fuentes that the
removal of the posts was JACKPOT PRIZE: P14,003,726.40
done in August 2007. S U E R T R E S
“Ac c o r d i n g t o h i m
MID-DAY DRAW RESULT EVENING DRAW RESULT
880 776
dugay na kuno gipangtang-
tang. But I doubt that
statement because lately
lang man na discover nga
nawagtang ang posts,” he
INSIDE
said. 1 Main News
He said he told Fuentes
8 Police
that Fabmik should have
informed the DPWH 10 Across The Visayas
when they removed the
posts. 11 Opinion
“I told him (Fuentes)
15 Islands
that those were govern-
ment property,” he said. 16 Community
Hermoso said he also
intends to write Fabmik's 17 Puzzle and Sudoku
main office in Manila be- 18 Life
cause there is a possibility
that the action of their rep- 20 Sci-Tech
resentative in Cebu City is
21 Showbitz
not sanctioned by the main
office. 22 Horoscope
The DPWH official said
they will finalize their ac- 27 Enterprise
tion against the contractor
29 Shipping Guide
after they finish their in-
ventory of the lampposts in 30 Classified
Mandaue City next week.
“We will act when we 32 World
have all the facts,” Her- 34 Sports
moso said.
Major Religious Superiors in City Chapter's peso cam-
the Philippines) Sanctuary paign, the lawyer's group al-
Fund. so condemned through a
“After four days, the resolution the reported ab-
AMRSP Sanctuary Fund to duction of Lozada, at the
support witnesses like Jun Ninoy Aquino International
Lozada has now reached Airport on Feb. 5 by police-
500K (P500,0000),” Sen. men.
Francis Pangilinan said. Cebu City lawyers headed
At the first hearing of the by Briccio Joseph Boholst
Senate at which Lozada ap- described the alleged abduc-
peared, Pangilinan had re- tion as a “brazen display of
quested for the setting up of naked power, a blatant vio-
such a fund for the witness’ lation of human rights, a
legal defense.
Aside from the IBP Cebu LAWYERS 39