Friday, September 21, 2007 Speak out: Critic’s good faith By Jesus Sievert
IN both his capacity as founder and president of Coralpoint Foundation, Inc. and as president of Mactan Island Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Efrain Pelaez should be commended for his resoluteness in exposing the alleged highly anomalous purchases of overpriced and inferior quality computers by the Lapu-Lapu City government.
The people of Lapu-lapu City should fall behind and strongly support Pelaez in pushing for a thorough investigation of this anomalous transaction, which is only one of the many negative issues brought to fore by this concerned citizen and his group against Mayor Arturo Radaza and his city officials.
If it is nauseating for us, non-residents of Lapu-lapu City, to be reading the constantly unfavorable and yet irrefutable comments about the poor and lackadaisical governance of the city, how much more dismaying and disconcerting it would be for the residents, investors and tourists who see with their own eyes and feel the sorry state of what could be an attractive place?
What is refreshing, if not gratifying, in this providential yet seemingly quixotic move of Pelaez, however, is that it is being carried and fought for by one who is not identified as a politician and therefore has no vested interest except to see that the welfare of the constituency of Lapu-Lapu City are attended to, as expected.
