“Either bakakon , way kalibutan or inutil.”
So said Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia on Gov. Hilario Davide who earlier claimed that he had no knowledge on who placed the “Never Again” banner at the CICC.
Another huge banner was recently placed at the facility, detailing the cost of construction up to the last centavo and saying that it is the amount of public funds wasted.
“Oh? And he said he had no idea who put that up. That new banner shows that the present administration has been lying all along, or is totally inept, or worse, a bunch of fools who are clueless about what’s going on,” she said.
“He had called for an investigation on the first banner, is he gonna call for an investigation on the second banner, too? I wonder when he will call for an investigation of himself,” she added.
The Capitol’s putting up of a new banner is meant to divert the issue away from their plan to destroy a heritage building inside the Capitol compound inorder to build a high-rise structure that will invariably cost hundreds of millions.
It is also a manifestation that Davide’s utter neglect to repair the CICC is deliberate, purposeful and a malicious political ploy to exploit the historical building for their political sloganeering.
“On the other hand, this inept and clueless administration intends to tear down the Baex, a historical building that is protected under Republic Act 1006,” she said. She pointed out Article 3, Section 5, letter F of Republic Act 10066, or the National Cultural Heritage Act, which specifically prohibits demolition of buildings over 50 years old.
If indeed it was damaged by the earthquake, Garcia said that under the law, the Capitol should restore it by retrofitting the structure and not tear it down.
Earlier, One Cebu gubernatorial candidate Winston Garcia hit at what he said was a “scam” for the Capitol’s plan to spend P57 million to pay for a consultant to oversee the construction of a high-rise building to replace the BAEX building.
By his projection, a consultancy fee of 57 million would be seven percent of the total project cost, which is around P800 million.
If that project pushes through, Rep. Garcia said Cebu will finally have what the administration has been trumpeting all along: “a true monument of corruption and greed.”
“When we built the CICC, we built a historical monument which was used for the ASEAN Summit, the East Asia Tourism Forum, and other historic international events. Now, they want to tear down a historical structure to build their own true monument of corruption and greed,” said Rep. Garcia.
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