By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ
A TOTAL of P66.3 million in pork
barrel funding went to various infrastructure projects and socio-economic
program in Mambulao during the years 2010-12, courtesy of the CamNorte
provincial government.
This was revealed by the figures
obtained by online news MWBuzz from the office of Governor Edgardo “Egay”
Tallado.
Tallado said in a brief note that
he sought the pork barrel funding from senators and congressmen during the past
three years of his term that began in 2010.
Senator Juan Ponce Enrile was the
only Senate member mentioned in the report, who gave away P7 million to fund
seven farm-to-market roads.
These FMR projects are in: 1)
Bagong Bayan – P1 million; 2) Plaridel– P1 million; 3) Osmena– P1 million; 4)
San Isidro – P1 million; 5) Sta Rosa Nore – P1 million; 6) Luklukan Sur – P1
million; and Luklukan Norte – P1 million.
One major road concreting project
– the 2.8km Sta Rosa-San Rafael road – received a P20 million from the pork
barrel of President Noynoy Aquino under the Office of the Presidential Affairs
on Peace Process (OPAPP)
OPAPP also funded the concreting
of the San Isidro-Sta Cruz FMR at a cost of P7 million.
In Parang, a 75m long seawall was
being built at a cost of P4.9 million along the beach to protect the squatter
shanties from surging waves during typhoons.
The first segment was completed
last February and the second segment was to start shortly.
In 2011, the provincial
government asphalted a 2,520m road linking Sta Rosa Norte and San Rafael for
P10.9 million.
Pork barrel funding of P3.35
million also went to the rehabilitation of a washed out culvert concrete pipe
and spillway in Barangay San Martin.
The Rural Health Unit in Mambulao
was renovated and extended in 2011for P2.3 million.
In Barangay Motherlode, an
evacuation center was built at a cost of P2.5 million.
Five covered courts were built
for P5.7 million in baranggays Larap (P2.5 million), Dayhagan (P500,000), Jose
Panganiban Elementary School South Poblacion (P700,000), Sta Rosa (P1 million),
and Calero (P1 million).
In Sta Elena, a Senior Citizen’s
hall was built for P500,000.
Aside from major public works,
the provincial government also channeled a total of P2.45 million in pork money
to assist barangay schools and various civic organizations during the
three-year period from 2010.
Fire hydrants for South Poblacion
were purchased by the provincial government at a cost of P59,504.
Tallado said he opted not to rely
on the 20 percent development fund of the provincial government and instead
sought funding assistance from the Office of the President, senators and
congressmen.
The report also revealed that
during the 2012-13 period it also spent a total of P93 million for concrete
road building projects covering 12.65km in five baranggays that included San
Rafael-Sta Rosa Norte FMR (2.55km); Tamisan FMR (2.55km); San Pedro FMR (2.86km);
San Martin FMR (2.7km); and Tamisan-Sitio Pinoy, Kisahan-Sta Cruz FMR (2km).
However, the money for these
on-going projects was not pork barrel fund but allocation from the Agrarian
Reform Community Projects 2 of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
On the other hand, the Department
of Agriculture has funded the concrete FMR project at Pag-asa at a cost of P5.5
million covering 690m and another FMR at Sta Cruz, also concrete, worth P5.5
million covering 650m.
The provincial government said that
the P93 million road funding was allocated under the General Appropriations
Act.
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