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DAR Employees Association (DAREA) president Nanette Pascual said the members were “highly disappointed” that the DAR leadership had not made any offer to help stricken DAR employees in the central Philippines but had resorted to seeking contributions from other DAR employees.
Pascual said DAREA members were also dismayed by the DAR leadership’s decision to use a personal account of the secretary’s top assistant to receive their donations.
Assistant
In Memorandum No. 380 issued by the Office of the Secretary on Nov. 12, employees were asked to deposit their donations to the Land Bank of the Philippines account of his head executive assistant, Justin Vincent La Chica.
The employees were told to send by e-mail details of their donation—amount, date, time and bank branch—for “better” accounting.
“The entire fund that would be collected will be properly accounted for and will be utilized to aid DAR’s field personnel affected by the storm in a socialized and justifiable manner,” said La Chica in the memo he wrote and signed himself.
Pascual said this was “highly irregular.”
Not illegal
But in a phone interview, DAR Undersecretary for Legal Affairs Anthony Parungao said there was nothing illegal about designating a personal account for collecting the employees’ donations.
“This is not unprecedented, we did this (using the personal bank account of the secretary’s head assistant for donations) in 2012 with Typhoon Pablo. There is nothing illegal here as far as I am concerned,” said Parungao.
Pascual said that at least four of the over 500 employees of the DAR regional office in Leyte were confirmed to have died during the storm. She said that up to 90 percent of the employees were rendered homeless by the supertyphoon.
“There is no help from the DAR to rebuild their office or fix their homes. They have yet to receive their salaries; there are no mercy missions by management unlike previous administrations,” said Pascual.
As usual, kukupitan, ano pa ba? Were people really surprised?
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DeleteDi tama yan. Dalat imbestigahan.
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DeleteCan we trust someone who's name is Dick!?
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Well I sure hope the irritating tandem took note of this.
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ReplyDeleteHay naku, course your help na lang to Red Cross or to the foundations of any of the three major networks (TV5, GMA, ABS-CBN) dahil masyadong suspicious yang personal account na yan.
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ReplyDeletemay nasorpresa pa ba sa issue?
ah oo nga pala pagnalaman to ng CNN. masosorpresa ang CNN.
To ensure trust and confidence of the filipinos on the dar, to avoid any iota of doubt, and to promote the govt's policy of transparency, they should have delicadeza and opened a separate independent account instead of using the personal account. If the dar has a good leadership, it should manifest this by forward thinking, meaning think and plan before you act so your actions leave no room for doubt.
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ReplyDeletesana hands off na lahat ng politician at government employees sa mga donation. ipaubaya nalang sa red cross. yes may tiwala ako sa kanila kesa sa politiko at ano pang sangay ng gobyerno.
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ReplyDeletePhilippines....we need to be more pro-active in safeguarding our donations.
Thank you for reporting this, Mike.
pag ito inaprobahan ng presidente, alam na. mga yellowtards, mag isip na kayo ng pangdepensa nyo. Ganyan naman kayo, hindi nyo iniisip yung mga mamamayan nating maliliit. Puro na lang kayo intindi jan sa presidente, ako hirap na siyang intindihin.. Buti pa ang bata madaling turuan!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of lawyer is this? Ang dali dali lang naman mag open ng account na hindi personal. Ipakalat ang scam na to!
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