House probe set on MWSS perks; truth body sought
By Gerry Baldo 08/16/2010 The controversy involving the extravagant financial packages that officials of the state water service regulator Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) receive which was among the revelations made by President Aquino himself in his State of the Nation Address (Sona), a party-list lawmaker yesterday pursued the creation of a “Truth Task Force” at the MWSS itself to uncover irrgeularities in the agency. Bagong Henerasyon party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera Dy said the proposed task force would look into allegations that ranking officials of the firm have been enjoying numerous perks and other benefits amid the country’s rising budget deficit. Herrera-Dy said that investigation would be conducted with the cooperation of Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson who will be forming a team that will determine the veracity of reports that the MWSS management and board of trustees have transformed the water agency into a virtual milking cow. She said that Singson assured her that his agency would cooperate in the House investigation relative to the multi-million peso irregularities in the water agency. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100816hed3.html |
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