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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Governors to ask for Cebu hearing
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has found an ally in the governors’ league, in her fight to have a public hearing in Cebu on the proposed creation of three more provinces.
The League of Provinces in the Philippines (LPP) will ask the House committee on local government to hold a series of public hearings in Cebu about the proposed Cebu del Sur, Cebu del Norte and Cebu Occidental.
The league passed a resolution yesterday during their meeting at the Plantation Bay in Lapu-Lapu City.
“It might set a precedent (if they don’t hold hearings in Cebu). In the future, there might be the same moves and people in the concerned province will not be heard because they will not conduct public hearings in the affected province,” Samar Gov. Ben Evardone said.
So far, House committee on local government chairman Rep. Emilio Macias is firm on his stand not to hold hearings in Cebu.
Garcia presented before the league yesterday the status of the bills. She asked fellow executives to “please help Cebu by campaigning with your respective congressmen. Cebu is against the dismemberment.”
Gov. Tommy Juson of Nueva Ecija assured that his two congressmen will not support the bills.
Also yesterday, the pastoral letter and the primer made by the Archdiocese of Cebu on its opposition to the bills were distributed to the governors.
At least four Cebuano congressmen also filed before the committee on local government a motion to suspend further actions on the bills.
Reps. Antonio Cuenco (Cebu City, south), Raul del Mar (Cebu City, north), Eduardo Gullas (Cebu, 1st district) and Ramon “Red” Durano VI (Cebu, 5th district) signed the motion.
Roque Ablan of Ilocos Norte, Eduardo Zialcita of Parañaque and Raul Gonzales Jr. of Iloilo City also signed the motion.
They said that proponents of the bills failed to meet the requirements in the official checklist of documents. They also allegedly failed to comply with the instruction to bookbind 30 copies of the documents for the committee members.
The filing of the bills was also not in accordance with the provision in Article 9 of Local Government Code, because these were filed even before the filing of a petition by towns and component cities that want their district reclassified as a new province.
The bills also lack several other supporting documents, said the congressmen. (MBG)
(August 31, 2005 issue)
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