NEWS BRIEFS
ONE CEBU EXPO WILL GO ON
IT will take nearly a year for the province to hold the One Cebu Expo, Provincial Information Officer Ethel Natera said.
She said the province doesn’t have much time considering that Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III only started office last month. Natera said the governor never said the expo will not be held.
She said the expo was not included in the list of activities presented by the Capitol committee for the founding anniversary celebrations.
“That is an expo and we are talking here about exporters. They cannot come up with a new product in just a month’s time since the governor assumed office only this July,” she said. Correspondent Peter L. Romanilllos
SENIORS WARNED ON RECALL PETITION
The Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) in Cebu City advised their members not to heed any signature campaigns promising the release of the P6,000 balance of their financial assistance from the city.
OSCA chief Rolando Llagono said some people are using this ploy to campaign for the recall of Mayor Michael Rama.
He said he received a tip that the recall petition was introduced in a gathering of senior citizens at Guadalupe’s barangay hall.
“I call on all senior citizen organizations in the city to refrain if not avoid from joining activities like the one in barangay Guadalupe. The intention is to destroy the city’s leadership,” he said.
Rama is still in Japan and could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Guadalupe has close to 6,000 registered senior citizens. Barangay captain Michael Gacasan denied Llagono’s claims, saying it was a “false alarm.”
He said the seniors who gathered in their barangay hall yesterday morning were called to a meeting by the Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS) to verify and update their OSCA issued identification cards.
Llango said he has yet to see a copy of the recall petition.
Llagono said the mayor told him that he wanted to wait for the assignment of a new city treasurer who will process the release of the remaining cash assistance.
Rama authorized the first release of the P4,000 tranche of this year’s P10,000 assistance last March 25. Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac
ALOGUINSAN FOLK GRIPE ON WATER WOES
EIGHTY residents of two barangays in Aloguinsan town, southern Cebu claimed they were deprived of potable water supply due to partisan politics.
The Bokan Association, composed of residents living in barangay Bojo and Kantabogon said Alonguisan Mayor Cynthia Moreno refused to approve their application for water connection.
Dinnes Oberes, Bokan president, said they decided to bring the complaint to Provincial Board (PB) member Grecilda Sanchez-Zaballero for fear that they may be blackmailed into supporting Moreno’s local candidates in the barangay elections.
They also complained that two service vehicles issued by the provincial government to the town is used by a certain barangay captain allied with Moreno.
Moreno said the residents never applied for water connections to the Engineering Office.
“I am surprised because I thought we already settled this matter. I told her (Sanchez) that she can come to the town and call a meeting with the complainants so that we’ll reach a resolution,” she told Cebu Daily News.
She dismissed the complaint as propaganda and said Oberes is running in the barangay elections under the Liberal Party-Cebu chapter. Correspondent Peter L. Romanillos
