Full accountability, transparency in P6.8-billlion Land Bank loan
THAT Pangasinan is seeing an unprecedented long list of planned projects over the next two years is worthy of note, however, the mind-boggling plan that accompanied it that was already recently realized is with the approval of the provincial government’s application for a P6.8 billion credit line with the Land Bank of the Philippines to fund these.
The listing of the plans, from the construction of the planned 166-kilomter Pangasinan Link Expressway (PLEX), to expansion of the Lingayen airport and construction of an airport in Bani, to renovation of Capitol grounds to construction of a hotel resort, to improvement of facilities of hospitals, to establishment of a school to boosting health programs for ostensibly implementation before 2025 election is one thing but preparation of studies and budgets would easily take at least a year to accomplish.
So far, only the establishment of the Pangasinan Polytechnic College is reported to have gone through an evaluation by a created working committee.
Most everything in the list are tentative and certainly not ready for implementation in the next six months at the very least. Proof? Even the bruited Pangasinan East-West Expressway (PEWEX) was only recently renamed Pangasinan Link Expressway with no final specific details about its implementing details.
It is, therefore, doubtful if the Guico administration can launch all these plans without proofs of well-studied plans just to be able to avail of the P6.8 billion credit line before 2025 will require not only full transparency but full accountability of the Vice Governor Mark Lambino and members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, they who quickly endorsed the loan application.
The provincial district board members must be made to officially account for the projects about to be implemented in their respective districts by certifying to the budgets, dates of start of implementation, dates of completion of projects and identification of the contractors.
The 2023 board members who should be made to account to their constituents on the performance of the projects during their incumbency are: First District (Nong Fontelera and Apple Bacay), Second District (Philip Cruz and Haidee Pacheco), Third District (Sheila Baniqued and Vici Ventanilla), Fourth District (Noy De Guzman and Jerry Rosario), Fifth District (Chinky Perez and Louie Sison), and Sixth District (Noel Bince and Salvador Perez). And of course, VG Lambino!
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