A P5 million ‘worthless’ school edifice
INSIDE CONGRESS |
charlie manalo |
The other day, officials of the Batino Elementary School in Quirino District in Quezon City approached a member of the media asking that they be assisted in finding sponsors to have their new school building finished.
The school building, with four classrooms, is bare. No school furniture and fixtures such as blackboards, desks and fans, it is still unpainted. Worse, even if the building has its own comfort room, it has no septic tank making it virtually non-functional. And the whole structure is worth P5 million.
According to the school officials, the building was funded with the Priority Development Assistance Fund of Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello. And for this reason, members of the Akbayan party-list have requested that one of the rooms be reserved for their exclusive use for the group’s headquarters.
If these reports are true, then this could very well serve as a fitting monument to Akbayan’s hypocrisy..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110929com5.html
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