Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Ex-Ceneco board director nixes Primo Esleyer By Gil Alfredo B. Severino
FORMER Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) board of director Romeo Lavilla lambasted Monday veteran journalist Primo Esleyer for coming out with a "malicious" column against him.
Lavilla, in a press conference held at McDonalds-Lacson Monday afternoon, said he doesn't like what Esleyer had wrote in his column (Feedback) at theVisayan Daily Star, describing him as a "flickering star."
Lavilla retorted, "Where were they during the last Ceneco General Assembly? They brag about bringing the Ceneco-Kepco sales contract and will do all within their means to stop it. But where are they now?"
Lavilla was referring to past elected officials of Ceneco, especially Esleyer, former Ceneco president Ed Guillem, and also former director Alex Espino.
Lavilla denied Esleyer's accusation that he had "toned down" his fight for Ceneco consumers' welfare, saying, "I did not. Ever since, when Esleyer, Espino and Guillem were still sitting as Ceneco officers, I have already been exposing the 'mafia' inside Ceneco that sucks Ceneco's fund to the disadvantage of the consumers."
Lavilla warns new Ceneco president Roberto Montelibano that the "mafia" inside Ceneco remains even until today.
Montelibano, meanwhile, said that soon, the P5 million full computerization program of Ceneco would be implemented. The IT program will make the Ceneco service more efficient.
It will also pave the way to monitor "leakages" in Ceneco finances, a means of solving the corruption problem inside Ceneco, Montelibano said.
