Colada fears secret dealings of top Janiuay execs with mystery ‘Superwoman’
High-ranking officials of the Municipality of Janiuay, Iloilo are reportedly involved with “secret dealings” to a mystery “Superwoman.”
A major disclosure made after the privilege speech of Board Member Cecilia Colada, the information was culled from the interpolation of First District Board Member Macario Napulan.
Napulan was first to stand up and express his dismay and shock over Colada’s plight before peers in the Janiuay Sanggunian Bayan (SB).
At the center of the controversy was the Gawad Kalinga (GK) project here. Colada when seeking for update on the list of donors and extent of donation was rebuffed by the GK manager dubbed “Superwoman.”
“That is none of your business. Who the hell do you think you are?,” she was told.
“Unconscionable” and “very unladylike,” Napulan said of the reply as she wanted the subject to be named. Yet Colada declined saying she would rather stick to calling her “Superwoman.”
“She is a balikbayan and a native of Janiuay, Iloilo. She is also the one getting donations abroad for the project but refuses to give us details… all of the Couples for Christ who were once part of the project, all out now because of her,” Colada decried.
The News Today (TNT) obtained a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the project donor, Timoteo Consing and the Local Government Unit of Janiuay as “donee.”
A total of 20,000 square meter property was donated by Consing with the Janiuay LGU tasked “at its own expense” to develop the area for a GK project site.
“Clearly, the government has a lot at stake here and with the resources coming from both the government and private sectors, it is just but right and just to make an accounting of everything. And for that accounting to be duly reported and acknowledged foremost by the municipal government. What is so wrong with that?,” Colada said when pressed further for comment by TNT.
The MOA further stipulates that the LGU is “free to set specific guidelines and criteria” in the selection of the other beneficiaries. Yet thus far, the LGU has reportedly had no say.