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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
NCDCI ‘forcibly closed’ Jan. 2000-April 2004 for funds lack
Northern Cebu Development Center Inc. (NCDCI), which received P12 million from Rep. Clavel Martinez’s discretionary funds, was closed from January 2000 to April 2004.
Maribel Resma, NCDCI’s executive director, said this in an affidavit of temporary closure that she sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission last Dec. 13, 2004.
Resma wrote that they were “forcibly closed” because of “insufficient funds.”
“The aforesaid office could no longer sustain all the expenses necessary for the continuous office function,” her letter said.
The Commission on Audit (COA) had told Bogo town in its annual audit report for 2004 that the NCDCI failed to liquidate the money, so it has yet to be determined whether this was indeed received by the recipients or whether this was used properly.
COA also said the amount was released without proper documentation.
COA had made the same findings on Bogo’s release of P6 million from the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) of Martinez (Cebu, 4th district) to another nongovernment group, Sikap Yaman Foundation.
Bogo Mayor Celestino “Tining” Martinez III earlier said he is not aware of NCDCI’s status at the SEC.
But he said the town continues to recognize the group, being an accredited organization that has a seat in the municipal development council.
Former congressman Celestino “Junie” Martinez Jr., in a radio interview yesterday, denied there was any irregularity in the transactions.
He implied that politics is behind the negative publicity against his family. He accused Sun.Star Cebu of a smear campaign against his family, saying the paper is owned by their rivals, the Garcias.
Last March 17, 2005, SEC Cebu Office Director Merle Cunanan told Resma that NCDCI’s certificate of registration was revoked in November 2003, pursuant to an order dated Sept. 30, 2003.
Last June 27, 2005, Maita Labrado, chairman of the board of directors, filed a petition to set aside the SEC order revoking NCDCI’s certificate of registration.
However, Labrado’s petition stated that the “institution was temporarily closed from “January 2004 to April 2004.”
Labrado said the NCDCI was delisted for its failure to file annual reports, but said they are “willing to comply” with SEC requirements.
Earlier, SEC records also showed that Clavel is one of the incorporators of the organization when it applied for registration in 1995.
Mayor Martinez said that there’s a new set of incorporators and officers, which excludes his mother, but an SEC employee yesterday said that if this the case, NCDCI did not submit a list to SEC.
A member-group of the NCDCI, Don Pedro Multipurpose Cooperative, also said earlier that it did not receive P1 million aid as listed by COA. What they received was P60,000 and started quarterly payments with interest to NCDCI from 2002 to June 2004. (JPM)
(September 27, 2005 issue)
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