3 Felisa Kagawads deny receiving money from Bing
BACOLOD CITY -- Brgy. Felisa Kagawads Joel Lavarro, Rodrigo Tamayo and Rodel Latosa strongly denied that they received financial favors of P50,000 each from Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia in exchange of their support to the continued use of their barangay as the city's dumpsite.
Lavarro said, "I never received a single centavo from the Mayor out of my support to the city's plan to put the permanent dumpsite in our barangay. We are the ones spending coming to and from City Hall regarding this dumpsite."
Tamayo said "Kagawad Felipe Hilado knows that nothing has been offered to us. What he's claiming that he was offered or we were offered is not true."
He added, "We cannot be easily swayed by money. We know how to earn a living decently and beyond politics. We came to City Hall because we want the people to be clarified on the issues of dumpsite."
He added that in Purok Totong, the people there want the dumpsite to stay in Felisa because they can earn from the dumpsite.
But the multi-sectoral group led by Punong Barangay Perigrino Aspan and Ma. Fe Tresfuentes believed that the dumpsite should not be in Felisa.