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P1K scholars aid under review

THE P1,000 cash assistance to Cebu City scholars will be delayed pending review of the number of scholars enrolled in the first semester of the school year.

Former councilor Jose Daluz III, who sits in the Local School Board and the City Scholarship Committee, said they will review the 1,000 scholars enrolled in the Asian College of Technology (ACT).

The school owned by Rep. Rodrigo Abellanosa of Cebu City’s south district lacks accreditation.

“We already encouraged the scholars to transfer and for the ACT not to accommodate new scholars,” Daluz said.

Daluz said ACT officials told them they continued to accommodate scholars since they were unaware of the city’s refusal to accredit the school.

The City Scholarship Committee ceased accreditation of ACT this school year pending a review of the school’s tax payment records and their scholarship payment claims during the last three years.

Mayor Michael Rama also ordered the scholarship committee to ensure the equitable distribution of scholars in schools participating in the program.

For the meantime, Daluz said they will still honor the contracts of scholars enrolled in ACT last school year and who remain enrolled in the school this semester. /Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac

Wakee faces another perjury complaint

AMID a failed mayoral bid, boxing promoter Rex “Wakee” Salud will face yet another perjury complaint.

In his complaint before the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy accused Salud of making untruthful statements in his second application for transfer of registration record due to change of residence.

“Salud claims to be residing at Cogon, Cordova Cebu although his actual and true address and residence is in Punta Princesa, Cebu City,” Sitoy said.

Salud faces three perjury charges in relation to his supposed transfer to Cordova town.

Sitoy said Salud claimed to be a resident of Cordova town for one year and 11 months as of Oct. 31, 2012 in his sworn application.

The alleged false statement was issued before an officer of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

In his first application for registration due to change of residence, Salud said he has been a resident of Cordova for nine months.

But in his second application, Sitoy said Salud claimed that he lived in Cordova for one year and 11 months.

Salud’s lawyer Fillmore Gomos said they will answer Sitoy’s allegations once they receive a copy of the complaint.

The Cebu Provincial Prosecutors’ Office will conduct a preliminary investigation on the case. /Reporter Ador Vincent Mayol

Personnel, office space needed for city slaughterhouse

ADDITIONAL personnel, a permanent office and the renovation of the city slaughterhouse top the priority list of Cebu City Hall’s Department for Veterinary Medicines and Fisheries (DVMF).

Acting DVMF chief Dr. Pilar Romero said a renovated slaughterhouse which was proposed as a private-public sector partnership project, will ensure the sale and distribution of safe meat to the city’s public markets.

Romero, also concurrent Abattoir Operations Division (AOD) chief, said she also needs an additional 50 meat inspectors and 29 more staffers to augment their personnel.

She said the DVMF’s existing workforce of 45 personnel and 49 staffers in the work more than eight hours a day without overtime pay.

The vacancies exclude the 17 openings after the contracts of 14 AOD and three DVMF casual workers were not renewed. Romero said she will ask for P36 million to provide office space for the AOD and P15 million as the city’s counterpart fund for the slaughterhouse renovation project. About P21 million was appropriated for abattoir operations and P14.3 million for the DVMF. /Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac