CAPIZ FORUM
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Tanco wants DSWD-6
field office out of Capiz
BY FELIPE V. CELINO
ROXAS City — Gov. Victor Tanco wanted the field office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development 6 (DSWD) out of the province.
Atty. Jose Villanueva, chief provincial legal officer, said Tanco felt insulted with the way DSWD-6 personnel treat provincial officials.
He said the governor wants to rescind the five-year memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the provincial government and the DSWD allowing the latter to use ‘Pag-ulikid’ commercial stalls at the Villareal Stadium here.
Villanueva also said Tanco allowed the DSWD to make use of the provincial government’s property after former Mayor Vicente Bermejo carted those away years ago for unknown reasons.
The DSWD-6 previously occupies a stall that belongs to the city government.
Tanco acknowledged the DSWD projects implemented in the province but he was by-passed in selecting project beneficiaries, he said.
Villanueva said there should be a Provincial Advisory Council to review all the list of the supposed beneficiaries and the program to be implemented.
Some were complaining, he said, alleging that some beneficiaries were not actually indigents or poor but professionals and well-to-do residents.
“The national government is spending millions of pesos for projects that do not actually go to the supposed beneficiaries,” he stressed.
Violeta Silva heads the DSWD-6 field office in the province, which holds office at the Capiz Provincial Capitol./PN
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