House probe on Noy’s MWSS appointee’s fat perks sought
08/28/2010 A congressional investigation into the bonuses of President Aquino’s appointee to the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is now set even as a party-list lawmaker disclosed that the newly appointed acting head of the water regulatory body has received some P5.9 million in bonuses, allowances and other perks during the past three years. According to Bagong Henerasyon party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy, she has uncovered documents that showed newly appointed MWSS Administrator Macra Cruz is getting fat allowances and bonuses from the MWSS, a government-owned and -controlled corporation. The documents showed that Cruz received a total P5,956,899 in allowances, anniversary and Christmas bonuses, traditional bonuses, honoraria, grocery incentives and other perks such as “PX mart allowance, family week allowance, corporate Christmas Package, Christmas bonus” as a senior official of the state water firm in less than three years, from 2008 to 2010. Some of the bonuses and allowance received by the official also included “registration fee service” amounting to P17,000; “Traditional Christmas Bonus” amounting to P71,860.95; another “Tradional Christmas Bonus” amounting to P71,460.00; “Discretionary Allowance” worth P137,513.72; “Family Week Allowance” worth P98,591.00 and a “Privatization Financial Assistance” worth P78,388.40. Macra also received an allowance for the anniversary of the privatization of the MWSS worth P237,987.60; A “traditional anniversary bonus” worth P197,182.20. Herrera-Dy has filed House Resolution 137 seeking to create a special body to investigate alleged irregularities at the MWSS “that may have contravened President Aquino’s order and thrust toward good governance and social transformation.”... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100828hed6.html |
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