In good faith

JUDGMENT CALL. That was the terse, albeit long delayed, response of Clark International Airport Corp. President-CEO Victor Jose “Chichos” Luciano to the question by what authority 16 buildings within the civil aviation complex were demolished.
Judgment call arising from good faith, to be precise. With Chichos reading not so much the Riot Act as the mandate of the CIAC president to donate buildings without any authorization from the CIAC board of directors.
So Candaba Mayor Jerry Pelayo, there’s the authority to demolish you’ve long been asking CIAC to produce.
Chichos too produced a series of communication from the Presidential Management Staff, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, and the Presidential Action Center virtually pressuring the CIAC to effect the donation of dilapidated buildings at the area of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport.
A June 23, 2009 letter from the PMS, signed by Secretary Hermogenes C. Esperon Jr., specifically stated that “the Office of the President has approved the request of Mr. Oscar Rivera, chairman, Bamban Aeta Tribal Association, for donation of DMIA’s old buildings (highlighting mine) and other old materials for their livelihood programs.”
There again, Kuyang Jerry, is the clarification of, nay, a contradiction to your allegation that Esperon allowed for the demolition of only one building.
“Dilapidated derelicts thoroughly ransacked. With absolute zero value in the CIAC books.” So described Chichos of the 16 buildings demolished. Not anywhere near the million-worth ascribed to them by some “anonymous engineer-contractor.”
Again, this contradicted the allegations of Kuyang Jerry that they were “still serviceable, needing but some refurbishment.”
And, no, Chichos stressed, there was nothing arbitrary in the choice of the buildings to be demolished. Only those identified by the Building and Utilities Regulatory Department of the Clark Development Corp. as “condemned” buildings were donated to the indigenous tribes.
“Sumusunod tayo sa proseso. Sa katunayan ay nagtanong pa tayo sa Commission on Audit kung ano ang magandang gawin ukol dito. Ang sabi nila basta wala lang perang lalabas sa mula gobyerno," said the self-professed stickler to procedure.
"No money ever changed hands. And there was no cost to the government. All of these are properly documented and the donations are part of CIAC's corporate social responsibility," he added.
CIAC’s CSR apparently encroached on the rights of Kuyang Jerry as investor when at least two buildings within his leased area were also demolished.
“Mayor Pelayo was given five hectares for his so-called Food Hub, at the the much-lowered cost of 50 cents per square meter,” Chichos explained. “For the past three years he has not made any improvement in his area. And he has not even paid for the rentals.”
So what about Kuyang Jerry’s reported payment of $24,000 to CIAC?
“That is but a security deposit we received in good faith from him,” Chichos retorted.
The man denigrated in some poison letters alternately as “Boy Scrap” or “Boy Bakal” strongly denied Kuyang Jerry’s allegation buildings intended for his Clark One-Stop Agricultural Market were demolished.
“No building covered in his contract was demolished,” Chichos averred. “Why, during the demolition, there was no formal opposition coming from Mayor Pelayo. It was merely verbal."
Verbal? Yeah, so very Pelayo. Chichos better prepare himself for some barrage of verbiage there. To be taken in good faith, but of course.