Setting aside all norms of decency in what is supposed to be a transparent process, PPA GM Sevilla has offered to pay consultants another “P153,000 to undertake the necessary amendments on the final bid documents to conform with the requirements of a single terminal operator.”
The scheme of PPA and its cohorts in promoting a monopoly at the North Harbor has spanned two administrations of ERAP and GMA. Six years ago this warning was aired against the unwanted proposition, but the efforts continue unabated and although clearly objectionable to a large number of stakeholders PPA still leads in its promotion. To whom does PPA owe allegiance to?
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Manila, Aug. 25, 2000 – The Foreign Chambers of the Philippines has accused the government and the bidders for the privatization of Manila’s North Harbor of favoring monopoly to the detriment of the local economy.
Eduardo V. Tiotioen would have not been slain had he been informed that there are execptions to the rule against facilitating arriving or departing passengers at the NAIA. From various reports on the incident it seems that he was only doing his job when he reported someone that appeared to be facilitating the arrival of a passenger at Naia 1.Unknown to Tiotioen, the arriving passenger happened to be a relative of Ignacio Bunye, as reported in the Cebu Daily News. The alleged assailant was reported to have been instructed by the NAIA General Manager to facilitate the arrival of Bunye’s child, according to the same article.
Other reports on the incident failed to include the apparent cause of the incident.
More comments from Manila Standard.
Below are news clippings on the privatization of the North Harbor. Anybody that has an inkling on what has been going on must be able to read the plot of this fairy tale.
This PPA railroad is really going fast! With no minutes from the last public hearing out yet, the GM’s recommendations were sent to the Board and passed without a hitch. Let’s wait to be appraised on the new Terms of Reference for this project, there might still be a way to stop this careening railroad boxcar.
Let’s just hope that the NEDA can see through this latest ploy for a monopoly at the North Harbor. We understand that SG Romy Neri has dug in on his opposition to the monopoly that was started in 1998 with Executive Order 59. We just hope he gets all the support from the anti-monopolists. Abangan!
