A ranking official of the Department of Transportation and Communications yesterday said that the original contracts to set up a national broadband infrastructure between the Philippine government and the Chinese government corporation, ZTE for $365 million were lost in Hainan the night after it was signed last April 20 in the presence of President Arroyo.
DOTC Assistant Secretary Lorenzo Formoso, who was one of the two Filipino signatories of the contract (the other was DOTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza), said the theft was reported by Emmanuel Ang, DTI commercial attaché, who said the papers were stolen from the hotel where the DTI personnel were billeted.
Formoso disclosed the loss of the contact while explaining the lack of transparency in the multi-billion-peso broadband contract in a forum sponsored by Action for Economic Reform at the Ateneo Professional School in Rockwell. “It’s a national shame,” he said, adding the NBI had to be brought in to investigate the incident.
Formoso declined to reveal the NBI’s finding except to say, “It’s the handiwork of forces who want to derail the contract.” He said the controversial contract was reconstituted last May 30.
Participants to the forum were aghast at Formoso’s disclosure.
Former Finance Secretary Ernest Leung said: “It’s incredible knowing how the public sector handles contract documents signed by government officials and witnessed by the President.”
Former Transportation and Communications Secretary Josie Lichauco said: “Actually, Assistant Secretary Formoso is a hero for exposing the theft of the government contract with ZTE as a national shame. In my 19 years in government, I have never heard of contract papers being stolen.”
Lichauco underscored the importance of the contract recalling that the President had to leave her ailing husband to make an 18-hour visit to Hainan to speak at the Boao Forum and to witness the signing of the contract.
Formoso said after the signing, the contacts were turned over to Ang for protocular documentation.
Lack of transparency has haunted the $365 million ZTE contract for a project that would facilitate connection among local government units down to the barangay level. It is estimated that it will save the government P3.4 billion yearly in telephone bills.
Since its signing last April, DOTC has not disclosed the details of the contact. Formoso said only Secretary Mendoza can give a copy of the reconstituted contract, upon written request.
Asked if the contract can be downloaded on the Internet, Formoso said, “I doubt it. People there don’t even know how to email.”
Two American companies are protesting the awarding of the contact to ZTE without bidding.
Arescom claims ZTE’s cost of $365 million is more than double the $135 million it is offering. Amsterdam Holdings Inc. (AHI) also said it filed an unsolicited proposal in December 2006 for a BOT scheme for $240 million.
Funding under the contact with ZTE would come from a 15-year loan from a Chinese state-owned bank with a five-year grace period.
Ganoon na ba ka dami ng magnanakaw sa Pilipinas? Oo nga pala- ninakaw ang pagka presidente, ninakaw ang Election Returns, etc. Nakaw dito, nakaw doon- naalaala ko tuloy yong kantang Old McDonald had a pig- with oink oink there and oink oink here here’s an oink there is an oink, every where oink oink.
Kamuntik na akong mahulog sa pagkakaupo nang mabasa ko itong pagkawala ng isang mahalagang dokumento na pirmado ng authorized signatories of the Philippine and Chinese governments. Har har har har!!! Ano ba kayo? Mga batang musmos? Baka naman toilet paper lamang ang pinirmahan. Pero kung totoong nawawala at April pa pala, aba’y balik sa China at humingi ng kopya sa kanila. Sama-sama uli kayo ng inyong delegasyon sa pamumuno ni Gloria. Wala naman sa inyo yang magwaldas ng salapi ng bayan. Manhid kayo sa mga bagay na ganyan. Hindi ko sinasabing ang tatanga ninyo! Ayaw kong sabihin yan, masama ang magbintang kaya ayaw kong sabihing ang tatanga ninyo!
Oy, baka naman talagang gusto ni Formoso na ipahiya ang administrasyon kaya humarap siya sa isang forum na laway lang ang dala. At doon mismo, ipinagwagwagan na nawawala ang dokumento. Parang si Lintang Bedol a, masyadong increbedol. Kung ako kay Gloria, sisibakin itong isang ito. Ay, huwag na. baka gawin pang ambassador sa Neverland.
I heard it first from Amb. Ernie Maceda. He said P3B will be lining up the greedy backpockets of our marauding officials.
For such a huge contract, it is simply stupid for anyone to even think of stealing the signed docs. No one will benefit from stealing it since pre-signing copies are always forwarded to all signatories for review of their corresponding lawyers. It is standard for any contract participant to precheck the legal, technical, and financial stipulations, some contracts even have to be rewritten several times until parties are finally in agreement. Lichauco’s commenting on the Undersec’s “heroic act” was more of an insult, I’m sure.
I CAN BET WITH MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, THERE ARE MANY COPIES OF THE CONTRACT, SIGNED OR UNSIGNED, IN DOTC, MALACAÑANG, GOV’T CORPORATE COUNSEL, NTC, AND DOST. The announcement of the loss is stupid in itself because of this. Who needs the NBI to investigate the supposed theft? It will not benefit anyone, even the country’s private carriers (PLDT, Glose, Digitel, Bayantel, etc.) who stand to lose billions in revenues from the goverment’s switch from analog system to VOIP. A copy of the signed contract can also be secured from the Chinese counterpart.
It will, however, benefit the crooks who stand to gain P3B in grease, for it seems that all concerned gov’t offices have been told not to provide anyone any copy of the contract text as it may reach the media and the American suppliers who are complaining of non-transparency.
When something is hidden by this regime, you can bet something is terribly wrong.
Actually, the alleged theft is simply a defense mechanism. Kasi pag may nagreklamo, hahanapan ng proof na iyun nga ang nasa kontrata. Pag may ipinakita, sasabihing “hindi iyan yung pinirmahan”.
Utak pulis, diba?
Sa pagkahulog ko sa pagkakaupo, hindi ko nabasa na reconstituted na pala ang contract noong May 30 kaya hindi na dapat sundin ang payo ko na bumalik sila sa China at magpirmahan uli. Ngunit hindi ko na pwedeng bawiin pagka tanga-tanga nila dahil hindi ko naman sinabi yon.
Pero ang maliwanag dito at tama ang nabasa kong news report noon, hindi naman daw kailangang pumunta si Gloria sa China kasama ang sangkaterbang alalay, mga 100 sila. Hindi rin ito state visit dahil walang official na pagsalubong na ginawa ang Chinese government na nauukol sa isang panggulo. Panggulo nga pala kaya hindi man lamang pinasalubungan ng palakpakan. It was a businss contract, not even Gloria was a signatory. Mas tama raw na sa Pilipinas ginawa abg pirmahan dahil pera ni Gloria ang ibabayad, I mean, pera ng bayan ang ibabayad.
Di ba naman? Sila ang gustong makipag-business sa atin, sila ang dapat pumarito. Pero gustong maglamierda ni Gloria labandera, ayun, gumastos ng milyon-milyon, karag-karag ang mga taipan dahil binubulungan noon na suportahan ang TU candidates sa May 14 elections.
Parang very impossible paniwalaan ang news na ‘to! Isa na naman bang TRUE STORY TELLING-a-LIE ito? Hmmm…kaduda-duda..but let’s wait for some more developments! Am sure may mga behind the camera na namang pakulo ang mga Sinungaling at fake makers sa bansa!
Wow, what a louse these people are? And nobody is getting arrested for this negligence regardless of whether this claim of this and that document is lost? Sinong niloloko ng mga hayop na ito. Never heard of this kind of creepy claim even during the Marcos regime. Puede ba, nakakasawa na. Pakisipa na lang si Mrs. Pidal at nang matapos na ang mga ganitong katarantaduhan.
Imagine what the Chinese may think of the Filipinos for this. E kung may nakalagay na pala sa mga kontratang iyan na binebenta na ang buong Pilipinas, wala pa rin bang maaantig para sipain na si bobang unano na nawiwiling nagpapalusot sa mga ganitong pagnanakaw? Please naman, maawa na kayo sa bansang sinilangan! PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Xanadu:
Dapat magkaroon sila ng batas sa Pilipinas na hindi puedeng maglamyerda ang mga opisyal ng bansa on any kind of pretext at gastusin ang pera ng bayan sa mga kapritso ng isang ungas na katulad ni bobang unano. Iyong ipinamasyal sa Roma at Portugal, pera ng bayan iyan. Kailangan may accounting diyan at i-expose sa dyaryo. Tapos ang lakas ng loob ng ungas na sabihin sa media na huwag na raw siyang batikosin until 2010. Abaw, patatagalin pa ba iyan hanggang 2010? Please mauubos na ang pera at assets ng bansa. Tanggalin na iyan, Pronto!
Sa pagkawala ng dokumento, magiging pamoso itong si Formoso sa pagsasaad ng ganito:
1. It’s a national shame.
2. I doubt it. People there don’t even know how to email. (This is an affront to the Chinese government when asked if the contract can be downloaded on the internet.)
3. Only Secretary Mendoza can give a copy of the reconstituted contract, upon written request.
What a crap talaga itong bagong tactic ng mga Pidal—stolen documents kuno. Trabaho iyan ng mga pulis para hulihin iyong mga nagwala kuno ng documents.
Buti na lang mga intsik ang kausap. Still, I wonder what the Chinese would say, and possibly do with the contract that would benefit the Chinese more with this alleged claim of such important document as being lost!!!
Hindi iyan dapat na pinalulusot. PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA! Hanggang kailan bang papayagan mga utouto at bobo ang mga pilipino ng bobang unano?
daming haka-haka tungkol sa nawalang kontrata.
para sa taong kalye (man in the street) kaya
nawala yan kontrata ay kailangan mawala para sa kapakanan
ni gloria. milagro yan para tuloy ang nakaw ng
kwarta ng bayan. kung dito nasunog yan baka pati
building nadamay. pero controlado pati sunog tulad
ng nagyari sa comelec. hindi mga tanga at gunggong
ang mga yan, magaling lang na mga kriminal.
I am sure this $365M telecom deal will be up for investigation by Congress for many questionable items. It will make the signatories to the contract liable that’s why Formoso is distancing himself this early by calling the lost original contracts as a national shame. Some of my thoughts on this questionable transaction:
1. It’s a Double Kill contract. First, the $365M is overpriced. Second, the amount is sourced from 15-year loan from a Chinese state-owned bank. With a 5-year grace on 15-year loan, the original $365M might reach more than $500M. Overpriced na, inutang pa.
2. Two American companies who vehemently protested the transaction divulge that they can do the same project for very much lower price. Arescom, for $135M and Amsterdam Holdings, for $240M.
3. There’s no bidding made and the transactions were made in shroud secrecy.
Take note that Gloria had to leave her hospitalized husband just to witness the signing and back to the Philippines within 18 hours. The haste and secrecy of the CASHUNDUAN sa CHINA was resorted to because it’s 3 weeks away from elections and her Tus candidates were badly trailing in the surveys. Ang bulong bulungan noon, PAGCOR and PCSO are drying up and they need more money to buy votes. A portion of that money could be the missing P650M campaign kitty which didn’t reached the locals, the reason why Gov. Evardone was spitting fire in the direction of Ronaldo Puno and Gabby Claudio.
It’s not a surprise under the Arroyo regime for important public documents vanished without a trace. Provincial election returns in ballot boxes inside the Batasan got lost. DBM building burned down together with important documents in Joc-Joc Bolante fertilizer scam. Most likely, it’s an inside job. Why the hotel intruder/s are very specific on their loot? Somebody wants to cover-up possible anomalies and deliberately destroyed signed contract. Anyways, they can always manufacture fake documents and pass it as authentic. Ricardo Manapat and Lintang Bedol are the best producers of fake documents.
Yung Konstitusyon pala natin kung hindi lang na iprint e baka ninakaw na.
This is gloria’s govt. Govt officials commit ”honest mistakes” without being held accountable.
well, as long as gloria is there, good governance, responsibility, accountability, credibility will never be a norm.
The Blue Ribbon Committee or Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations should look deeper onto the China’s ZTE Corp. P16 billion broadband project deals with the Philippine government. It appears to be over-priced by P10 billion.
According to insiders ZTE’s real price is $132 million. Why NEDA and DOTC approved the ZTE jack-up price at $329.5 million? A US firm, Arescom using the same broadband technology cost $135 million and submitted its proposal ahead of ZTE. There’s something wrong in the ballooned contract. ZTE Corp. is notorious worldwide in under the table deals. Happy GO hunting!
Swerte naman ng local contractor na gagawa para sa ZTE. Imagine, the thousands of islands all wired up!
May kinalaman kaya si JDV? Ang alam ko pioneer sa broadband yung Broadband Phils., founded and chaired by Joe’s brother.
Itong cable layout, signal trasmission systems at switch console equipment simula pa lang iyan ng broadband. Meron pang kasunod na VOIP enabled phones, local networks, etc. Marami pang maibubulsa later on.
Ngayon pa lang hulihin at ikulong ang mga mandarambong! Baka tuluyan na tayong maubusan.
Di ba si Jose De Venecia kumita sa North Rail project. Malamang sabit din siya P10 billion komisyon. Baka ang mga Bonoan bangus may internet koneksyon na.
Inquirer banner story: Arroyo seeks media help. Says her last 3 years in office legacy phase
Present were executives of broadcast giants GMA 7 and ABS-CBN, ABC 5, government networks NBN 4, IBC 13, RPN 9, the Iglesia ni Cristo’s Net 25, radio stations dzBB, dzMM, dzRH, RMN, dwIZ and Radyo ng Bayan, broadsheets Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard Today and the Philippine Star; and tabloids Ang Pilipino Star Ngayon, Tanod, Tempo and Balita. Conspicuously not listed are Daily Tribune, Malaya and Abante. Gloria certainly would not want to see the faces of Ninez Cacho Olivarez and Jake Macasaet.
It could only mean one thing to us. Nobody from the media executives dared to ask Gloria about the allegedly overpriced $365M Cashunduan sa China and the ensuing national shame for losing the original contracts after signing it on April 20, 2007. Nothing in the report will show that somebody took the courage of asking Gloria if it’s really DEAL or NO DEAL.
Lumang tugtugin na yan. Di ba STOLEN din ang mga election records ayon kay Lintang Bedol? Nawala rin ang election cheating records noong sinunog ang COMELEC office sa intramuros. Nawala rin ang records tungkol sa election disbursements ni mrs pidal noong sunugin and computer room ng Office of Management and Budget. Ang tanong ay, sino ang makinabang sa pagkawala ng naturang mga dokumento? Follow the money trail and you have the answer/answers….
Spy:
Iyong Consitution ng Pilipinas, nasa home page ng Chan, Robles, Et Al Law Office. Puede pang i-download. Bilisan mo kasi baka manakaw din! 😛
Ako na-translate ko na iyan sa Japanese. May kopya na rin ako ng original. Susmaryosep naman. Sobra namang burara. Bakit pinapayagan iyan?
Puede ba, bumaba na lang si Boba Gloria. Nakakabuwisit na e.
Dapat diyan kay Boba, binabatikos. Hindi iyan dapat ginagawaan ng free publicity ng mga sipsip. Hirap kasi sa Pilipinas, walang credible na press club. Sayang! Dito, nakikipagtulungan pa sa pag-iimbestiga ng mga kaso kaya walang nakakaligtas na kurakot.
Iyong publicity gimmick nga ni Pandak sa Japan, hindi umubra. Iyong lobbyist niya ang yabang kasi, supalpal sa mga media dito. E di close shop ang nangyari sa kanila.
Ang alam ko nilipat na ang operation nila sa Manila at Sydney. Pati yata iyong sa US, hindi umubra.
Dapat talaga sa mga kumag na iyan sinusupalpal. Hindi na dapat pumapayag na tapalan lang ng pera, OK na. Di bale kung kanila namang pera ang nilulusta nila. Pera ng bayan ang kinukurakot ng mga animal. Pwe! Puede ba, sipain na lang!
Tama si Senator Trillanes, Gloria is the problem! Walang progreso habang nandiyan ang salot na iyan.
Anong legacy ang pinagsasabi niya. Hindi na gaganda ang kanyang iiwang legacy dahil nakatatak na sa kanyang pangalan sampu ng kanyang pamilya ang kanyang kasinungaligan, pagnanakaw ng boto ng mamamayan at pangungurakot sa kaban ng bayan. The intense of her lies are so deep. No amount of good publicity will ever erase the corruption in her government. There’s nothing to be proud of in her.
I think we should brace ourselves for more plundering of the National Treasury for the next three years.
Papaalis na sila, kundi man mapatalsik ng maaga. So lahat ng paglulustay sa kaban ng bayan ay gagawin ng mga hudas na ‘yan.
Remember Erap when he took the office of the President? Bangkarote na pala ang bansa sa kabibiyahe ni Fidel Viajedor Ramos!
Napapansin ko na ang lahat ng mga maanumalyang kalakalan na niluto/nilagdaan ng administration ni Blinky Tiyanak at tuluy-tuloy na binabatikos ng mga nagmamatyag na mga mamamayan ay biglang nagkakaroon ng mga aberya at kadalasan ay hindi kapani-paniwala ang dahilan.
Ang akala ng mga hinayupak na ito ay napakabobo na ng mga Pilipino at kaya nilang paikutin sa kanilang mga palad at sa kanilang mga kamay at palad ang maggagabay sa magandang kinabukasan ng mamamayang Pilipino.
Mali! Sapagka’t lahat ng kanilang ginagawa sa kasalukuyan ay para sa kanilang pansariling kapakanan sa nalalabi nilang mga taon sa pagkaka-upo sa pwesto.
Tama si Sampot – na bangkarote ang kaban ng bayan nang umalis si Tabako at ipinasa ang pamamahala kay tunay na inihalal na Prsedent – President Erap. Di ba ang coined word ni Tabako ay “tiger economy” of Asia ang Pilipinas. Kalokohan – eh, marunong lang mambola si Tabako dahil kahit nga maka-ngiaw na parang pusa ay hindi nakuha noong kapanahunan niya.
Kaya hindi dapat lubayan itong pag-iimbestiga sa anomalyang ito hanggang sa pagtatapos upang malaman kung sino ang may kinalaman dito upang maparusahan ng mas matindi pa kaysa kay Saddam Hussein.
Tongue, Joey de Venecia (I’m not sure if he is the son or nephew is with Amsterdam Holdings, the losing proponent.
Formoso said both the Chinese and Philippine original copies were the ones lost. He said although there were soft copies, only the hard original copies had the signatures.
Golly, this should be the last straw! Enough is enough! The nerve of the idiot to be asking for free publicity for her stupid policies. Marami daw siyang magagawa pa sa tatlong taon from now and 2010. Ano siya masaya? She has already completed an illegal 6-year tenure of office, but look, may nagbago ba? OK, so may nagbago! Lalong dumami ang mga magnanakaw, sinungaling at iresponsableng opisyal. Dumami pa ang mga utang ng mga pilipino, dagdag doon sa mga inutang ng tatay ng ungas na hindi pa nababayaran ng mga pilipino.
Golly, ang kapal ng mukha! Hindi pa bumaba! Hopefully, matutupad ang pangarap ng lahat ng bumoto kay Senator Trillanes na mapapalayas ang ungas ngayon din, pronto. Since ilegal din ang eleksyon ni de Castro, siguro it will be best to have Erap return to Malacanang and finish the 2 years that he failed to finish and this time with better people around him to finish the job.
And Senator Pimentel, who was supposed to be the Senate President then, should then be made the Vice-President instead of the idiot who should be arrested together with her husband and those who helped her seat at the palace by the murky river. Mas OK pa siguro ito para lang mabalik ang bansa sa normalidad. Reconciled pa ang lahat.
Maraming mabibilanggo. Kailangan ang mga kulungan!!!
‘yung pirmadong dokumento, ninakaw sa hainan? april pa? bakit ngayong lang ibinunyag kung kailan sumingaw ang amoy ng bagong imprentang salaping pamapdulas?
hoy, mga daga! lumang istrok na ‘yan. stayl n’yo bulok!
….imprentang salaping PAMPADULAS?.
kung mula sa pekeng presidente ay MAGNANAKAW na napaliligiran ng miymebro ng pamilya niyang kawatan gayundin ng mga gabinete niyang gahaman na walang pakialam kahit mangurakot ang mga tauhan basta’t hindi sila pinakikialaman hindi kaya kabikabila ang mga MADYIK na panakip SINGAW?
if you study all the contracts signed or witnessed
by Gloria and all her underlings, they are materials
for two semesters study for the Course: Treason 201
and 201-A (a masteral course) described as fundamentals of plunder and corruption, Selling your country for a song;
case studies of specific deals selling current natural resources, committing future generations to foreign powers or local business titans; .
Pre-requisite courses: all undergraduate courses in Machiavelli; all undergraduate courses in criminal law. pre-reguisite courses may be substituted and may be accepted from students who had served two terms in Congress either as Senator or Congressman. This two semester course shall be required for masters in Political Science, Economics, Business and Public Administration.
Required Readings: Website of the Govt of the Philippines under Gloria Arroyo; website Office of the President.
Quite an exaggeration? Look at the poor and their children,
Look at the pupils of elementary schools in cities and the
Provinces. Visit the hospitals and children’s wards and charity wards. Look at the stats on crime against properties.
Ano ba itong balita na inimbitahan daw ang mga taga-media kamakailan ni Glueria at pinakiusapan na ceasefire muna sa hindi magandang balita upang masaya naman ang susunod na tatlong taon?
Di ko maiintindihan kung saan nilalagay ang mga utak nitong lusaw na ekonomista na ‘to. Dapat siya ang magvacate sa kanyang puwesto upang sasaya ang buong bayan hanggang sa mga susunod na henerasyon!
Pahawa na diha! Karon Na!
Magno:
Kahiyahiya talaga lalo na kung country to country deal pa naman iyan. Ano na lang ang sasabihin noong mga intsik kapag nalaman nila na pati sila dinadawit sa mga kabulastugan ng mga kausap nilang mga pilipino?
These people should be prosecuted for what they are doing. Hindi puedeng maging careless ang mga hayop na ito dahil nakasalalay ang kapakanan ng Pilipinas sa mga pakikipag-usap, at pakikipag-ugnayang ito sa mga intsik na maaari ring magkaroon ng masamang epekto sa mga ibang bansa lalo na’ may bali-balita dito ng mga secret deals na makakasama sa mga interests ng ibang bansa sa Asia na gustong dominahin ng mga intsik.
Golly, dapat diyan pinaghuhuhuli ang mga hayop na burarang nagwala (kuno) ng mga documentong questionable siguro ang mga deals nila kaya hindi nila mapalabas at gusto nilang itago ang mga kapalpakan nila para hindi mabatikos ng mga more responsible media at mga taumbayan sa pamamagitan ng new gimmick nilang “palitao, lulubog-lilitaw sa tae ng kalabaw!”
Kaya anong kalokohan ni Boba na nagpapasaklolo ngayon sa mga media daw! Manigas siya! Puede ba, PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
kahit kailan hindi mawala ang kulay ng “AY EM SORI” drama ni burukang gloria at mga alagad niyang timang!
akala kasi ng babaeng ‘yan sapat na ang mga papungay niya ng mata at pagpapaamo ng balsamado niyang mukha upang dagliang kalimutan ng taong bayan ang alinmang nilang KAPALPAKAN!
hangal!
ayon naman sa banderang balita sa tribune – HANDA RAW MAGBIGAY ANG MALAKANYANG NG AMNSTIYA SINA TRILLANES AT HONASAN.
siguro bunga ito ng AMNESIANG dinaranas ng mga HILONG talunan nitong nakaraang eleksiyon at ‘yung mga nangungurong ang mga betlog sa takot na buweltahan sila ng kanilang kinakasuhan ng imbentong kaso!
“-HANDA RAW MAGBIGAY ANG MALAKANYANG NG AMNESTIYA KINA TRILLANES AT HONASAN.”
ay, bulol!
Ex-prime minister Thaksin, wife charged with corruption
Associated Press
Last updated 12:57pm (Mla time) 06/21/2007
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai prosecutors filed corruption charges against ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the Supreme Court on Thursday, in the first formal charges lodged against the exiled former premier.
Thaksin’s wife was also named in the case, which involves allegations of wrongdoing in a land deal.
The attorney general’s office also recommended that officials seize the 33 rai (5.16 hectares or 13.2 acres) plot of land, valued at 772 million baht.
The Supreme Court said they would decide on July 10 if they would hear the case.
Thaksin has been living overseas since he was overthrown in a military coup in September while he was abroad.
http://www.newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=72534
i wish GLORIA AND FATSO also!
tagal!
yuko,
kapag ang pundasyon ng isang istruktura ay nasimulang pamugaran ng anay hindi basta mapupuksa ang peste kung ang mga alagad lamang ang pagdidiskitahan. dapat talaga at nararapat lamang na unahin ang REYNANG ANAY na siyang pinakamasiba sa buong kaharian!
Bakit kaya nakikipag-mabutihan na si Gloria sa mga Chinese at Russians?
Dahil ba ayaw pakawalan ng mga Kano si Jocjoc Bolante?
Dahil ba umaalma na ang European Union at Japan sa mga human rights violations ng rehimeng Arroyo?
Dahil ba willing ang China at Russia na pondohan si Gloria ng walang tanung-tanong?
Bakit nga ba?
Kung sa Hainan pa nawala ang mga documents, day after it was signed, does the Phil. have any jurisdiction in Hainan, to do the investigation? International nakawan na. Puede ba ang China mag-investigate?
i tend to agree with Tongue-Twisted assessment: those documents were deliberately made to disappear before the critical and vigilant segment of the media could lay its hands on them.
there is no other explanation, for why would it disappear apparently without any trace less than 24 hours after contract signing, and twin copies, at that? a very crude way indeed of preempting, and of parrying, the prying eyes of media and the public at large as well .
courtesy of Queen Gasul of the Enchanted Kingdom, first we have the most expensive highway in the whole world, the Diosdado Macapagal Highway. now this…, are we seeing again, this time, the most expensive broadband project ?
this one little thief, is no ordinary. not only greedy, she too wants the stature of being world-class—in plundering, that is.
Magaling talaga sa magic itong administrasyon.
If there’s the case of missing documents, there’s a case naman of a document coming out without the knowledge of the person concerned as reported in the Inquirer. It’s about the resignation letter of Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales reaching media which he denied he signed or he already tendered his resignation.
The bone of contention now is Morales is on the way out like BIR Commissioner Mario Bunag who was unceremoniously sacked. Inunahan na ng Malacanang si Morales.
Rose: Puede ba ang China mag-investigate?
I don’t think China will make a fuss about the stolen documents being bruited about by Formoso on the $365M dollar telecom deal. Because in the first place, it will be an insult to the Chinese communist government kung totoong ninakaw ang dokumento within its territory where a panggulo ng Pilipinas mismo was there to witness its signing. I suspect, wala talagang nakawan. The reconstituted contract might have been revised to do away some onerous provisions. Kung magkaroon ng investigation which I am sure there will be, they already inputed some escape clauses.
Further, I doubt if the Chinese government will allow NBI investigators to do their sleuthing in their soil without it’s investigating arm, whatever it is. spearheading it or doing it by themselves. Remember, wala silang maipakitang result of investigation. Well, we know they can manufacture results of investigation, it’s their forte, which we know all along. Only themselves will believe it.
Isinulat nga ni Ma’m Ellen sa itaas, Shades of Bedol! In both instances, matagal nang nawawala ang dokumento. And what keep them unreported for so long? My friends in the blog, you and I know the answers.
Aside from the case of the stolen documents, I would like to draw your attention on what this project is all about.
As written in the thread: Lack of transparency has haunted the $365 million ZTE contract for a project that would facilitate connection among local government units down to the barangay level. It is estimated that it will save the government P3.4 billion yearly in telephone bills.
To my reading, it is telecommunication project and the beneficiaries are supposed to be the local govcrnment units (LGU) including the barangays. It’s justification: Makakatipid daw ang gobyerno ng P3.4 billion yearly!
I understand that local telecom firms like PLDT, Bayantel, Globe and Digitel are experienced and efficient enough to cover the LGUs and barangays, why the need to enter into a contract with an outsider? If an ordinary citizen like me will cast doubt on the propriety of this project, how much more the experts who were questioning why the need for this project and why the haste and secrecy? To my simple mind, the present cellphones in almost all nook and corner of the Philippines will suffice, why spend billions more?
Capped with the gargantuan cost of the contract which is obviously overpriced and tainted with graft, this contract must be stopped once and for all. We don’t want to be burdened with this another anomaly which to our computation, including interests, may reach up to $500M.
Xanadu:
One thing sure is that there lots of robbers and thieves in China dating back to the time of Alladin! Even my Chinese friends in Tokyo are afraid of their fellow Chinese. Presently, there are several Chinese in our own death row for committing robbery resulting in murder.
Now, knowing this fact, these crooks in the Philippines must have thought of making a scapegoats of the robbers and thieves in China by blaming them for the loss of this Chinese contract that the crooks would not like to show the taxpayers in the Philippines.
Rose is right. If there is truth in the allegation that the document was stolen in China, then it should have been reported there and let the Chinese police do their investigation.
Ang problema baka hindi Chinese ang nagnakaw, kundi pilipino. Iyan ang mas nakakahiya!!! Actually, I don’t think the Chinese government would be embarrassed if they are told of the allegation that the said contract was stolen in Hainan. Ang problema lang ay baka tanungin ng mga intsik kung bakit naman pag-iinteresan ng mga kapwa nila intsik iyon na papeles lang naman.
Bakit puede ba nilang pagkakuwartahan as in kidnap for ransom? Ang bobo naman ng nag-imbento ng istoryang iyan gaya ng pagkabobo ni Linta Bedol! Nice try, mga gunggong talaga!
I think this a sloppy cover-up job by former PNP chief and DOTC Sec. Leonadro Mendoza. Maybe he wants to hide the details of the signed contract because Senator Panfilo Lacson is eyeing Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and might be interested to investigate deeper in the anomalous ZTI broadband deal. Sec. Mendoza was General Lacson’s deputy during the 2001 Edsa Dos power grab. Mendoza played a key role by isolating and neutralizing Lacson inside Camp Crame. Gloria Arroyo rewarded him the PNP top post and later the DOTC job.
Nayanig na ang dating Pulis Na Panis ni Gloria. Siguradong sabit siya sa P10 billiong komisyon. Weather weather lang hijo.
Ellen,
Looking deeper into details raises several pertinent questions, how could the new broadband system integrate in a public leased-line voice/data system when operators are required, FIRST: to secure a franchise from congress before any work is commenced. The NTC, with its stringent requirements, has not approved nor has Congress granted anyone a franchise to operate a public utility system. ZTE is merely supplying the backbone for the system, who will operate it, government?
SECOND: If its purpose is solely to serve the voice and data requirements of the gov’t “from Malacañang down to the barangays”, will gov’t now be competing with private carriers Smart/PLDT, Globe, Bayantel, Digitel, Islacom who also offer the same services? This move will jolt the whole telecoms industry, not only because of the revenues it stands to lose but also from huge payments it will have to make to access the backbone system.
THIRD: Will gov’t operate the system by creating a new GOCC? This is where the signed documents should be scrutinized. Does it carry stipulations of a BOT project, if so, ZTE has really short-circuited the franchise requirements and also the law which prohibits foreigners owning more than 40% of public utilities. The project may be constitutionally infirm. If Gloria says the gov’t owns it, then there goes privatization, in REVERSE!
FOURTH: Since the telecoms companies are quiet (no one is complaining), will gov’t be funding the infrastructure with OUR money and only be used later for the interests of private enterprises, saving them billions had they been required to construct it themselves? If this is the case, then how many shares of stock in these corporations have been assigned by Deeds to the Pidals?
FIFTH: What does the US Ambassador now have to say regarding the theft, after her complaint of non-transparency and of the lack of public bidding was made on behalf of the angry American proponents whose offers were cheaper and technically superior? We all know the Americans will take no bullshit from Gloria. How will Gloria react?
I guess these questions can only be answered by the docs. And Formoso has already said copies can be provided ONLY by Sec. Mendoza upon writing a request.
You get the drift.
Actually hindi pa ang DOTC ang pinutukan dito kundi yung Trade Attaché na si Mr. Ang na siyang may hawak ng dokumento. DTI ang sumabit.
Bakit kailangan pumunta pa sa Tsina si Gloria. Iniwan pa niya si Mr. sa ospital. Siya lang ba ang dapat tumanggap. Sa kanyang palad ba dapat iabot? Nag changed hands ba nang million US dollars. Or they failed to come across? That’s why kalimutan na yang project na yan. They failed to deliver. NO DEAL. The contract must vanish.
The Chinese will Just keep quiet as part of diplomacy and international relations. Dahil sa gastos sa operasyon ni Mister kailan lang nabawasan ng ilang patak ang lawa ng kwartang ninakaw ng mag asawa. Kung doctor at gamut lang medio okay, may dagdag suhol pag kailangan mag sinungaling. At saka Kailangang palitan ng balde balding kwarta yung ilang patak na nagastos. Kailangan punta sa Tsina kahit wala sa protocol at nakakahiya.
Are bloggers yaking and yaking about a project contract that’s gone. Kaput, dahil ayaw paloko ng mga Chinese? What is there to investigate on water under the bridge. Sana mali ako para meron Imbistegasyon sa senado.
talaga nga naman, puno ng baho ang administrasyon ni gloria! ang daming kasinungalingan, pandaraya at pang uto sa mga tao.
nawala? o kusang winala, para kung ano man ang ipapakita sa darating na panahon, yun yung may changes na.
tsktsktsk pathetic!
With the results of the mid-term elections, which favored the opposition bloc as far as the senatorial line-up is concerned, the Filipino people have high hopes of getting results with the Blue Ribbon Committee inquiry and investigations.
We will expect and get results with the replacement of the chairmanship from Senator Joker Arroyo to Senator Ping Lacson.
Methinks at this early stage, those who are involved in this anomalous deal are claiming that the contract papers were stolen.
But going back to the basics, any new player who seeks active participation in providing telecommunication services in the country must secure a francise from the congress and at the same time the National Telecommunication Commisssion will provide the concession where the services are deemed necessary and the provision for inter-connection to the existing dominant carrier.
But – this administration thinks they can do whatever they want and forget about the existing rules and regulations as promulgated by the law.
Methinks at this early stage, those who are involved in this anomalous deal are claiming that the contract papers were stolen because they will be investigated by the Blue Ribbon Committee once the Senate starts its session.
Iisa lang ang mastermind ng lahat ng nakawan at dayaan-CORRECT- SI TIYANAK at ang alipores niya. Even the people who oppose the tiyanak diasappear. The documents were stolen by who? Kung sino man yung may kababalaghan, yun na iyong magnanakaw. Mahilig naman itong si tiyanak at ang kanyang esposo na mag side deal. So, para hindi mabuking ang mga kontratang may mga hidden provisions, ninakaw na lang. Bedol style, di ba?
kahit saan pa nawala ang signed contract, china can cancel it, sue the persons who handled and seek damages.
imadyin naman kung gaano KAWALANGHIYA ‘yang mga gahamang walang inisip kundi GATASAN ang sambayanan?
kaya gumaganda ang echo-nomy sa ilalim ng admonistrasyon ni madyikerang gloria!
ang masasabi kulang ANG TATANGA NYO……
Ellen,
Please delete the above post. Nakakasira ng paningin! 🙁 Nag-iba na naman ng pangalan. Thanks.
walker;
Who are you and where you from?
walker,
ang masasabi ko naman ABO ANG laman ng ULO MO!
bayarang timawa ni gloria makagarapal arroyo!