TACLOBAN CITY – Four opposed, one abstained and five approved favoring the resolution to provide financial assistance to Sangyaw Foundation worth P150,000 among members of the city council.
In their recent regular session, members of the minority block opposed the resolution asking to provide another financial assistance to the Sangyaw Foundation. This, after the Commission on Audit report stated that the foundation is in-eligible to be granted with such kind of support.
In the latest COA report, according to City Councilor Jerry “Sambo” Yaokasin, it states that the city government had provided a financial support to the foundation amounting to P2.6 million which the government agency found it as illegal as the foundation still has no track record.
The foundation was created after the city mayor had revived Sangyaw Festival to oversee and supervise the activities for the city fiesta but later on the function of the foundation was taken care of by the chief executive of the city.
He added that based on the COA report, the financial assistance that was given by the city government when the foundation was created was asked to be liquidated and be refunded by the foundation.
“The P2.6 million financial assistance is not yet resolved, that is why it is illogical that we provide another financial assistance to them,” Yaokasin stressed.
When asked why the other five members of the city council approved the resolution, Yaokasin said that based on the statement of City Council Floor Leader Attorney Edwin Chua, the members of the city council are not liable to any complaints that might be filed against the foundation.
“He said that we are not liable to any complaint but only the beneficiary of the financial assistance, which is the Sangyaw Foundation,” Yaokasin said.
“But still, I would like that the P2.6 million be refunded first before we should grant them the P150,000,” he added.
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