City hall’s deficit reaches P53-M

BY: Joel P. Mapiles


ANGELES CITY – Based on the admission of the city account, it was found out that as of May 13, the city has already incurred a deficit of P53-million -- and it's all on record.

“Iyon daw kasing annual budget ng 2010, ipinambayad ng mga utang ng city hall noon pang 2009 hanggang 2010 kaya ayon, negative na P53-million na ang buget ng city hall,” Attorney Dennis Albert Pamintuan, campaign manager of Mayor-elect Edgardo Pamintuan, told this reporter.

Pamintuan lashed back at city administrator Mark Allen Sison when the latter stated in an interview that the incoming administration is having “chronic hunger”.

He said the outgoing administration may be the one having chronic hunger.

“Especially since they will be leaving the city with a massive amount of unpaid debts consisting of P63-million for basura; P8-million for power; thousands of job orders na ang iba ay ghosts employees,” the young lawyer stated in his text messages.

He noted that the incumbent administration has already appropriated 28 vehicles owned by the city government, and allegedly donated these to their proven allies.

“We are closely monitoring and silently investigating these unpaid debts of public record running to millions as well as the number of people getting salaries as fictitious job order workers,” he said.

Pamintuan said he highly doubts the claim of Sison that what were carted off from the city hall were personal properties of their men.

“A very reliable source of concerned city hall employees clearly alleged that the so-called 'clean up' in preparation for the turn-over was done at 2:00 to 3:00 am,” he reiterated.

He said that if one has clean intentions, why do it at these ungodly hours and not right after office hours?

Pamintuan stressed that ultimately, this would have been easily ironed out if the Nepomuceno administration would just coordinate with them as mandated by the Department of Interior and Local Government.

“We have written them twice (May 17 and 27) requesting for a meeting of our respective transition teams but our requests had been blatantly ignored,” he added.