Can of worms in NHA
| C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S |
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
Galling National Housing Authority (NHA) general manager Chito Cruz. Kindly accelerate your ongoing review of questionable and potentially explosive contracts and related operations being undertaken at the agency. We are told that the squatting, land grabbing and retitling syndicates victimizing government, legitimate business people and, yes, the thousands of homeless and settlers occupying mostly public lands, many of which owned by the NHA have regained their footing and are on the prowl for more shady initiatives. Just days after P-Noy ordered a stop to the relocation of the remaining informal settlers at the sprawling North Triangle complex in Quezon City in the aftermath of the bloody confrontation between these groups and the demolition teams the day before we are being swamped with reports of additional problems awaiting the new NHA leadership. One such problem involves the reported irregular acquisition of NHA properties which were heretofore left to ruin but are now primed for so-called re-development. Of course, at almost give-away lease or even acquisition prices.
Sources say that a group reportedly funded by a certain wealthy Binondo-based businessman, is busy working out the irregular maybe even illegal lease and ultimately acquisition of lands owned by the NHA and other government agencies. These guys have reportedly renewed their “relations,” with a ranking NHA officer to serve as their pointman in the housing agency. The latest land deal this group is working on involves the questionable acquisition of a seven-hectare NHA property at Pier 18 at the North Harbor..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101018com5.html
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