Secretary Roger Singson of the Department of Public Works & Highway should check the misdemeanours of its officials at the 2nd Sub-Engineering Office at Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan.
They rudely treated a media man.
The media man told me that when he asked a certain “Janet” who acts as the liaison officer of the whereabouts of her boss Eng. Mayette Mendoza, Janet without any reasons shouted at them “Wala si maam dito! Nasa field!”
He said he could not understand since two staff of Mendoza told him that the latter was just at her office as she just arrived by pointing to him her blue pick-up truck.
He said he was embarrassed by being shouted upon as there were people who were at the hallway of the sub-district at that time.
He said the actuation of this liaison officer was condemnable that he wanted to report this to the National Press Club.
He added that when he persisted to enter the office of Mendoza, the latter was no longer there. He sensed that Mendoza hid at the dining room at the back of her office.
When Janet appeared again, she loudly told the two media men that her boss was already angry.
“Bakit naman ganoon ka-bastos ang mga ta-o doon?” another media man asked his sorry colleague.
His friend could just shake his head. He said they went there to ask two disturbing questions relayed to them by a public official who are bothered by alleged corruptions at the public works office and its commissioned contractors.
The unfortunate media man said that he would be asking Eng. Mendoza why ten dikes under the watch of the public works collapsed when Tyhoon Juan ran over it in Sta. Barbara.
He said was it because of defective construction by those contractors?
Were the defects were results of government officials at the DPWH and politicians pocketing up to 40% of the funds of the flood control projects like dikes that made these contractors construct a haphazard dikes because they want to recoup their expenses?
Tsk, tsk! These were not posed because it takes only a “rude” Janet and an “angry” Eng. Mendoza to deter them to stay longer at the lounge of Mendoza.
Why not our friends at ABS-CBN and GMA-7 try to go there and ask the same questions?
Janet and Mayette, wait for our friends as we would just watch to our living room how you answer these questions.
Oooh, and to our friends too, at the National Press Club.***
This column welcomes two BIR top honchos in Region 1 and Pangasinan who were part of the recent reshuffle done by tax commissioner Kim Henares.
Regional Director Arnel Guballa and Revenue District Officer-4 chief Catherine Cardona. Guballa comes in the Camanava (Caloocan-Malabon-Valenzuela) area, while Cardona comes from Ormoc City.
We will be watching you guys.
I heard from BIR insiders that the previous RDO-4 chief there has done some hanky-panky in the collection of taxes from conspiring taxpayers.
According to my source, the RDO chief in cahoots with some Examiners there has billed a certain taxpayer with a tax at the tune of P200 thousand. The taxpayer conspired with his contact by asking that his tax be mitigated. Examiner brought him to the RDO chief. The chief told the tax payer to pay P100 thousand. But the abetting taxpayer, who should be thankful because he helped robbed the government, has learned to hate the guts of the RDO.
Why? RDO issued a receipt acknowledging to receive (brace yourself) a measly sum of P20 thousand only.
It’s obvious that the P80 thousand have been divided by those vultures there.
We have a lot of stories about how transactions were being illegally processed there that run to millions of pesos.
One reasons for the reshuffle of BIR RDOs happened because half of them did not reach their goal last year.
The Aquino administration hopes that with the new reassignment that saw an RDO from Pangasinan assigned as far as Zamboanga City, the P930 billion tax goals this year would be collected as his government did not add any tax measure to boost the budget of the government.
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