No compromise!.
This was the marching
orders of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte with respect to the two water
concessionaires - Maynilad and Manila Water.
The President wants to
talk to the people behind the highly controvertial 1997 water concession
agreements.
President Rodrigo Duterte and businessmen Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala Manila Water) and Manuel Pangilinan(Maynilad). (photo credit to owner) |
“Kaya gusto ko silang
makausap. Hindi ito maareglo hangga’t hindi ko makausap yung mga
concessionaire. Gusto ko harap ang abogado ng gobyerno na p*t*ng*n*ng gumawa ng
kontrata na ito,” Duterte said during a governmental
function with the Philippine National Police in Malacanang.
The Chief Executive claims that the two water concessionaire
have cheated the public not only billions but trillions of pesos for passing
the corporate income tax payments to the consumers and for their failure to
establish wastewater treatment facilities
“Trillion ‘to,
sobra. The fact alone that all these years we were paying a fee para sa water
treatment but it’s never came into being all these years. Then corporate income
tax was passed on to the Filipino people,” Duterte said.
The
Chief Executive last week threatened to pursue economic sabotage charges
against the 2 water distributors as he claimed that Filipinos were being " milked by
billions."
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