Award undeserved
“THE QUARRY collection system did not deserve the Gawad Galing Pook 2008. It miserably failed to meet the criteria of sustainability, transferability and consistency.”
So declared Rene Romero, president of the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon. The man knows whereof he speaks being part and parcel of the other winning Gawad Galing Pook 2008 entry – the City of San Fernando’s public governance system.
“Parang bumaba ang pagtingin ko sa Galing Pook,” Romero said of the “undeserved” award for the Panlilio administration.
"The province's winning is mere luck and not actually good performance if we are to look at it closely," Guiao was quoted as saying. "It’s like basketball, you are good at what you do, not because you are lucky but because you are really good at it. But Panlilio's so-called quarry collection is just luck."
Guiao shared Romero’s sentiments on the “abject failure of the quarry collection system in the aspects of consistency and sustainability,” citing as proof the plunge in the collection and the continuing call for justice of the dismissed quarrymen of the Biyaya A Luluguran at Sisikapan (Balas), who were directly responsible for the increase in the collection.
A word from the Balas boys on the award: "It's unfair. We risked our lives to help improve quarry collections. Now all the glory goes to Panlilio and Dabu while we continue to starve here at our picket line, patiently waiting for our back wages. Is that what they call justice? We hope they could be fair enough to people like us who served them with dedication and loyalty."
Sans the sentiments of Guiao and Romero and the lamentations of the Balas boys, the Gawad Galing Pook 2008 bestowed on the provincial government of Pampanga, would still stand on very shaky grounds.
Res ipsa loquitur. The thing speaks for itself. So hallowed in law. So indubitable an argument in logic.
By the numbers shall Romero and Guiao’s argument against the Gawad Galing Pook 2008 find validation, especially as the numbers come from the provincial treasurer’s office.
Quarry collections for December 2008 totaled P14,295,000 – short of P1,815,000 when ranged against the collection for December 2007, at P16,110,000.
The plunge in the quarry collections started in July 2008, with an average of monthly P8-million “shortages” in comparison to the 2007 collections.
The difference assumed staggering proportions with the P34,385,000 gap between the July-December 2008 total collection of P84,795,000 and the P119,180,000 for the same period in 2007.
The spectacular shortfall being vainly glossed over by the Panlilio administration proffering the cumulative total of P319,338,000 from his first day in office in July 2007 to Jan. 9, 2009.
While sustainability is found so much wanting there, consistency is all too evident – the quarry collections in constant plummet.
So, how did the quarry tax collection system manage to snag the Gawad Galing Pook 2008?
Better ask Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo, reportedly a member of the panel of judges and Panlilio’s close associate in the Kaya Natin! movement.
Kinaya kaya?
So declared Rene Romero, president of the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon. The man knows whereof he speaks being part and parcel of the other winning Gawad Galing Pook 2008 entry – the City of San Fernando’s public governance system.
“Parang bumaba ang pagtingin ko sa Galing Pook,” Romero said of the “undeserved” award for the Panlilio administration.
"The province's winning is mere luck and not actually good performance if we are to look at it closely," Guiao was quoted as saying. "It’s like basketball, you are good at what you do, not because you are lucky but because you are really good at it. But Panlilio's so-called quarry collection is just luck."
Guiao shared Romero’s sentiments on the “abject failure of the quarry collection system in the aspects of consistency and sustainability,” citing as proof the plunge in the collection and the continuing call for justice of the dismissed quarrymen of the Biyaya A Luluguran at Sisikapan (Balas), who were directly responsible for the increase in the collection.
A word from the Balas boys on the award: "It's unfair. We risked our lives to help improve quarry collections. Now all the glory goes to Panlilio and Dabu while we continue to starve here at our picket line, patiently waiting for our back wages. Is that what they call justice? We hope they could be fair enough to people like us who served them with dedication and loyalty."
Sans the sentiments of Guiao and Romero and the lamentations of the Balas boys, the Gawad Galing Pook 2008 bestowed on the provincial government of Pampanga, would still stand on very shaky grounds.
Res ipsa loquitur. The thing speaks for itself. So hallowed in law. So indubitable an argument in logic.
By the numbers shall Romero and Guiao’s argument against the Gawad Galing Pook 2008 find validation, especially as the numbers come from the provincial treasurer’s office.
Quarry collections for December 2008 totaled P14,295,000 – short of P1,815,000 when ranged against the collection for December 2007, at P16,110,000.
The plunge in the quarry collections started in July 2008, with an average of monthly P8-million “shortages” in comparison to the 2007 collections.
The difference assumed staggering proportions with the P34,385,000 gap between the July-December 2008 total collection of P84,795,000 and the P119,180,000 for the same period in 2007.
The spectacular shortfall being vainly glossed over by the Panlilio administration proffering the cumulative total of P319,338,000 from his first day in office in July 2007 to Jan. 9, 2009.
While sustainability is found so much wanting there, consistency is all too evident – the quarry collections in constant plummet.
So, how did the quarry tax collection system manage to snag the Gawad Galing Pook 2008?
Better ask Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo, reportedly a member of the panel of judges and Panlilio’s close associate in the Kaya Natin! movement.
Kinaya kaya?
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