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Coop board okays probe body’s advise to file suit By PAT SAMONTE Regional editor-Caraga
BUTUAN City––The board of directors of Agusan del Norte Teachers, Retirees, Employees and Community Cooperative (Antrecco) here has approved the investigation committee’s recommendation to dismiss and sue its
cashier allegedly found with P2.6 million in unliquidated coop funds. Antrecco chief executive officer Francis Loque said the coop board, during its session on Friday, gave due course to the probe body’s advise to dismiss and file libel, qualified theft and
estafa charges against coop cashier Brian Mar. “The next move”, Loque said, “is for the board of directors to pass a resolution authorizing the filing of charges and assigning lawyers to handle the criminal and civil aspects.” The probe body was
formed following the discovery of the shortage in September, 2011 and ensuing internal and external audits. Loque said the cooperative has since communicated with Mar about the unliquidated funds and tried but failed to get the coop cashier’s liquidation report with sup-
P1-m bounty for mine exec killer By BEN D. ARCHE, Correspondent
DIGOS City––The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Davao del Sur is now offering P1-million to anyone who can provide information for the arrest of the suspect responsible in the death of an executive officer of Xstrata-Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) based in Tampakan, South Cotabato. CIDG provincial commander Senior Inspector Francis Sonza said that Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte augmented the P500 thousand initially offered by SMI to make it P1 million as total reward. SMI’s executive officer Cris Bual was shot dead by unidentified assailant near
his residence inside Central Park Subdivision in Davao City on Sept. 16, 2011. Initially, SMI offered some P500 thousand, and subsequently Duterte committed another same amount to augment the reward. Sonza believed that the killer is just hiding within the province.
Meanwhile, a security consultant of Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) and a police officer were killed in an ambush carried out by several armed men at Sitio Maclak, Barangay Kimlawis, Kiblawan, Davao del Sur on Wednesday afternoon. Police Superintendent Marcial Magistrado, Police
Regional Office (PRO) Xl spokesman identified those who were killed as retired police Supt. Villamendo Hectin and PO2 Rey Tonzo. Wounded in the ambush were SPO1 Wenefredo Sengoñigue and PO1 Glen Beltran who are now treated in a hospital. KILLER/PAGE 7
porting documents. He said Mar had instead allegedly embarked on a “black propaganda campaign against this institution from which benefitted thousands of members not only in Agusan del Norte but in Caraga Region as well.” Loque said allegations of
mismanagement and personal interest against the Antrecco were “all innuendos aimed at discrediting an organization that started with 29 incorporators and P14,500 capital and grew to its present membership of more than 10,000 with assets exceeding Pl60 million.”
Probe on PNP’s P1bn ‘license deal’ pushed • The deal was reportedly anomalous • Did not pass through proper bidding By CRIS DIAZ, Associate Editor
A CAGAYAN DE ORO representative is asking a probe on the P1 billion ‘license deal’ of the Philippine National Police (PNP) two years ago. Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, Cagayan de Oro City’s Second District, filed House Resolution No. 2481 to set an investigation on the PNP’s ‘license deal’ entered into with Nanjing Industrial Tools and Equipment Co. The resolution alleged that the deal contained in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed sometime on March 2010 did not pass through proper bidding and contained alleged irregularities.
Under the MOA, Nanjing was to print the required number of license cards for the service firearms of PNP police officers and security guards with a total average of 42,063 cards per month at a cost of P150 per card for a period of 15-year. The license cards were categorized into 21,818 cards per month for the PNP’s Firearms and Explosives Division (FED) and another 20,245 cards per month for the PNP’s Supervisory Office for Security Agencies which amounted to P1.1357 billion. Resolution 2481 alleged that the MOA contains PROBE/PAGE 7
Alcala tackles banana crisis with stakeholders in Davao By BEN D. ARCHE, Correspondent
PHOTO BY BEN D. ARCHE AGRICULTURE Secretary Proceso Alcala presents feasible solutions to resolve the problem haunting the banana industry as proposed by the Philippine Government during a consultation in Tagum City with banana growers and exporters in Davao Region recently.
TAGUM City––Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala recently met the banana growers and exporters in Davao region to thresh out solutions on the present woes of the industry including China’s imposition of stricter phytosanitary requirement. During the consultative meeting also attended by the provincial and local officials of Davao del Norte, Alcala presented achievable solutions to the problem facing the Pilipino Banana Growers
and Exporters (PBGEA) and the Mindanao Banana Farmers and Exporters Association (MBFEA). The stopgap measures include the reaccreditation of banana processing plants and the integration of packaging houses. At present, there are already 268 packing plants operated by PBGEA and 44 of the MBFEA certified by the Department of Agriculture (DA) as having complied and passed the quality standards set by Beijing.
Alcala also assured the groups that the government will fund the upgrading of cluster packing plants as he warned that unaccredited packing house will no longer be allowed to load bananas for export. MBFEA head Remegio C. Garcia urged the small banana growers to toe the line. He said the new procedure is a bitter pill that they should swallow or else they won’t be able to regain the export market. CRISIS/PAGE 7
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