Prov’l administrator: No information yet if EVSU, CHED have changed contract on use of land inside EVSU campus

TACLOBAN CITY – The administrator of the provincial government of Leyte has no information yet if the management of Eastern Visayas State University(EVSU) and the Commission on Higher Education(CHED) have already changed their usufruct contract with regards to the use of land inside the campus of EVSU.

Administrator Vincent Emnas in an interview said that he has not yet received any communication from EVSU officials if they had already changed the deed of donation which they entered into with the officials of CHED for the construction of a building to be used as the regional office of the education agency.

The information on the construction of a building inside EVSU campus was discovered by the provincial government after officials of the barangay forwarded a copy of a complaint to them, due to violation of the agency that funded the building construction of the process of acquiring permits.

The piece of land which EVSU donated to CHED was donated by the provincial government, a violation to the contract with the provincial government, which even the lawyers of said school had admitted, according to Emnas.

“CHED may construct a building on that land and donate it to EVSU after several years, but there is no way that EVSU will donate that land to CHED because it is prohibited in the contract as stipulated when the provincial government donated that land to the school,” Emnas explained.

“That is a violation to the deed of donation by the province,” Emnas added.

He added that they were only informed about the situation when they received a copy furnished letter of the complaint of the barangay chairman of the barangay where EVSU is located.

“When we learned about it, we immediately called the attention of the EVSU management to withdraw the execution of the deed of donation with CHED,” Emnas said.

“We don’t have problem if they will enter into a contract for as long as the deed of donation will not be violated, but as of right now we have not yet received any update on the matter,” Emnas added.