Margie’s war: For what it’s worth (1)
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| Charlie Manalo |
Ever since Margie Juico assumed the PCSO chairmanship, she had, just like a raging warrior, embarked on all-out war against her predecessors. She had accused the former PCSO officials of leaving behind a bankrupt agency with P4 billion in debt, entering with overpriced advertising contracts and supplies’ contracts, doling out donations to ghost patients, luxury vehicles to bishops, endowments and ambulances for the benefits of lawmakers’ constituency among many others.
However, most, if not all of these allegations, as former PCSO Chairman Manoling Morato insists, are unfounded.
How, Manoling asks, could Margie say that the PCSO is bankrupt when she admitted herself the PCSO paid P2.9 billion in taxes? The P4 billion PCSO debt, Manoling said, might have included all the agency’s payables for mandatory contributions to different government agencies including the Commission for Higher Education (Ched) and the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), which have accrued throughout the years..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110705com6.html
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