Zamora assails Ceneco GM for violating compromise deal
BACOLOD CITY -- City Legal Officer Atty. Allan Zamora yesterday assailed the move of Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) General Manager Erlo Sajo in refusing to approve the application of the City Government to acquire electrical connection for the New Government Center.
Zamora said Sajo's act is a clear violation of the Compromise Agreement which the management of Ceneco and the city government signed last week in the presence of Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra.
He also assailed the reason given by Ceneco management that it could not approve the deed of donation presented by the city for lack of technical description. Zamora said that Mr. Sajo and Leo Jerez Officer-In-Charge of Member-Consumers Integrated Services Division outrightly refused to accept said application.
Zamora said as far as the city government is concerned, they have already submitted all the legal requirements including the payment of P1.1 million as an outstanding balance in the total payables of P9.7 million and also the service connection fee amounting to P557,000.
He likewise validated that Ceneco received the check but they refused to give a service connection.
Zamora also called the action of Ceneco as immaterial considering that the city has already submitted the technical description and the lot plan which is vital for the construction of the New Government Center. Zamora had some doubts that the new issue in not accepting the application is highly political and he suspected that Mayor Evelio Leonardia's political opponents are the ones manipulating the electric cooperative.
Earlier, City Administrator Dr. Roger Balo had already submitted the requirements relevant to the application of the Bacolod City Government for electric power service connection to the NGC located in Brgy. Villamonte.