VOL. 8 ISSUE 187 • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015
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SEALED. A police officer seals the muzzle of a fellow officer’s gun with tape to prevent indiscriminate firing during the Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations. The sealing took place after the flag-raising ceremony at the Camp Leonor Domingo compound yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.
SP REJECTS SASA PORT B PROJECT
Business leaders laud resolution By CHENEEN R. CAPON
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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HE Davao City Council has objected to the implementation of the controversial P19-billion Sasa Port Modernization project of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) for lack of consultation with the city government. In yesterday’s regular City
Council’s session, the councilors passed a resolution “expressing our objection to the proposed Sasa Port Modernization project.” In an interview yesterday with EDGE Davao, Council majority floor leader Bernard Al-ag said the resolution was sponsored by the committee
on trade, commerce and industry headed by councilor Jimmy Dureza. Al-ag said the councilors unanimously voted to object to the project because there was a violation of Republic Act 7160 Local Government Code of 1991 under section 27. The provision says, “no
project or program shall be implemented by government authorities unless the consultations mentioned in Sections 2 (c) and 26 hereof are complied with, and prior approval of the council concerned is obtained: Provided, That occupants in areas where such projects are
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USINESS leaders from different industries in Davao City lauded the City Council’s passage of a resolution rejecting the P19-billion Davao Sasa modernization project. “We believe that what they did was right because they (members of the City Council of Davao) were not consulted before proceeding with the bidding process,” newly-elected DCCCII president Bonifacio Tan told EDGE Davao yesterday. Tan said in a recent meeting with Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya, the latter insisted on going ahead with the bidding process of the Sasa modernization project. “They insist to go ahead with it but we are against it.
It’s the same as the comment of Senator Sergio Osmeña’s opinion that it does not give benefit to Davao port users and will only increase the cost of stevedoring and handling,” Tan said. Anflocor Group of Companies president and chief executive officer Alexander Valoria also lauded the Council’s move. “This unneeded project was being forced upon Davao without the proper consultation,” Valoria told EDGE Davao. Valoria, who also sits as the president of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA), said the Council resolution “will now enable Dabawenyos to contribute meaningfully toward the correct need and use of Sasa port.”