CEO men victimize Adventist Church
The newly finished building of the Seventh Day
Adventist Church in Jalandoni-Ledesma Streets.
Even the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church was victimized by unscrupulous individuals at the City Engineer's Office (CEO).
This was uncovered in the last hearing of the Sangguniang Panlungsod's ad hoc committee investigating the alleged involvement of CEO officials and personnel in anomalies.
Architect Rene Militante claimed certain personnel from the CEO copied the architectural plan of their new building and signed it as their own, an action which connotes a violation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)..
SDA recently constructed a new building along Jalandoni-Ledesma Streets. The original plan for the building is only one-storey. But donations from their fellow churches abroad poured in so they opted to change the architectural plan. From one-storey building, it was changed to a three-storey building.
During that time a group from the CEO came to the site and demanded for a new plan. They then advised the SDA management to resort to the "as built plan." Arrangement were then made in order to rectify the architectural plan the SDA eventually provided the CEO with their new plan.
However, to their dismay, the SDA found out later that the rectified architectural plan already bore the signature of a certain "Ano". Later, the said person issued a waiver that the change in the name of the architect on the plan is only a clerical error.
Later, the SDA found out that the signature of a certain Allan de la Riman, a casual employee of the CEO appeared in the architectural plan. This caught the attention of the SDA.
At the height of controversies hounding the CEO, Militante and the other members of the church voluntarily appeared before the investigating body and imparted their sad experience with the engineers office.
Meanwhile, Architect Eduardo Chu admitted before the ad hoc committee that he will not comply and is not amenable in the writ of preliminary injunction handed down by Branch 22 of the National Capital Judicial Region in Manila over the issue raised by the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers Inc. (PICEI).
The writ of preliminary injunction stemmed on the conflict between the Implementing Rules and Regulation (IRR) of the National Building Code of the Philippines (Presidential Decree 1096) and Republic Act 544. The civil engineers contested the IRR which bars them from exercising the right to prepare, sign and seal plans and specification.