Is it Incompetence or Outright Thievery?
So it seems the man of the hour that can save Pampanga from the thieving vultures was indeed true. “Amang” Gov. Panlilio collected P11.6 Million in quarry taxes in a span of 10 days compared to the past administratong errrr administration’s P29.1 Million for the whole of 2006. Is this a case of incompetence or outright thievery, well your guess is as good as mine.
Yikes now what in the name of kotong errr kind of collection are they doing….. Jueteng style where those who pay have a chance to win? 365 days equals P29.1 Million against 10 days of Gov. Panlilio at P11.6 Million, heck no wonder father and son cannot be reached and supposedly are in the US. Calling on federal authorities maybe some investigation is in order because the USA is never a safe haven for criminals or never will harbor criminals if it turns out that a crime was committed in the quarry tax collection.
In 10 days Gov. Panlilio collected 39.86% of what Junior Lapid collected in 365 days so is this incompetence or there’s thieving going on? It seems if the report is accurate the P29.1 Million is the highest peak since father and sonamagun errr son junior's collection range from P10 to 30 Million per year. Now how disgusting is that?
Let’s hope that Vice Governor Joseller Guaio, keeps a close watch on alleged quarry irregularities, and hopefully continue pursuing the graft case against the younger Lapid and provincial treasurer Vergel Yabut as he promised. Here’s a quote from the article by Tonnete Orejas of Inquirer:
"Guiao noted a "discrepancy" of P337 million between the collections of the Natural Resources Development Corp. from 1999 to 2001 and the elder Lapid's administration from 2002 to 2004.
In the case he filed at the Office of the Ombudsman in March, Guiao said between P600 million and P1 billion might have been lost to graft from 2004 to the first two months of 2007 under the younger Lapid's administration.
Private sector leaders have formed a quarry watchdog last week to help foil irregularities in the collection of quarry taxes."
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P3 B in lahar sand quarry income lost under Lapids?
By DING CERVANTES
The Philippine Star
SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Based on the present collection of fees from lahar sand quarrying under the administration of Gov. Eddie Panlilio, Vice-Gov. Joseller Guiao said the provincial government might has lost about P3 billion in potential quarrying income in the past nine years.
Guiao told The STAR that the province earned some P11.6 million from quarry permits from July 2 to 13, adequately showing that the monthly average gross income from quarrying amounts to about P1 million.
Based on this monthly average, the Panlilio administration could generate about P359.35 million a year, he said.
Also based on the figure, Guiao said the entire six-year administration of former governor, now Sen. Lito Lapid had a shortfall of about P2.095 billion in quarry income, while the term of his son Mark, who lost in the recent elections, was short of P1.03 billion.
The P11.6 million generated in only 11 days this month, according to Guiao, indicated an average income of P966,000 per day, P29.94 million per month, and P359.35 million per year.
Quarry permit fees were raised from P40 to P300 per truck during the second term of the elder Lapid.
“The quarry permits are used by quarry operators for hauling lahar sand on the same day or the following day after they were acquired, so the collections so far would be enough to establish the actual trend in the average income influx,” Guiao said.
“We can round out the figures to about P1 million per month, as my estimate is that while quarry income goes down to as low as P700,000 monthly during the rainy season, it peaks to more than one million from November up to the following May,” he said.
During the elder Lapid’s two-term stint as governor, Guiao said the average quarry income was about P10 million per year or only about P60 million in six years, while during his son’s three-year term, the average income was only P15 million per year or only about P45 million throughout his administration.
Guiao estimated that altogether, some P3 billion in quarry income was unaccounted for during the administrations of the Lapids.
Guiao has filed administrative and criminal cases against the Lapids over alleged anomalies in quarry fee collections.
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