MMDA workers caught selling free MMFF passes

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be reviewing its policies in distributing free passes for the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) after two of its personnel, including a traffic enforcer, were caught selling them on social networking sites.

Tim Orbos, MMDA general manager and chair of the MMFF executive committee, said that while they were saddened by their employees’ actions, they would not hesitate to file charges against them.

On Friday, Orbos said that agents of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested traffic enforcer Cyril Pama and two other people, one of them also an MMDA employee, in entrapment operations.

He added that the three had offered to sell on Facebook their MMFF passes which would entitle the holder and a companion to see all the entries free of charge.

According to Orbos, this modus may have been going on for years, especially since a quick check of Pama’s previous Facebook postings showed that he sold two MMFF passes last year for P500.

Each MMDA employee receives a free MMFF pass every year. Orbos, however, said they would be stricter next year in determining who would be given the passes.