Village demands P10.5B from bases authority
FORMER CAMP O'DONNELL
Village demands P10.5B from bases authority
By Tonette Orejas, Inquirer
CLARK SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE--A barangay captain in Tarlac has demanded P10.5 billion from the state-owned Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) to turn his village and adjacent areas into a "model community."
The amount that Kennedy Molina, chair of Barangay Cristo Rey in Capas town, is asking from the BCDA is the first and biggest claim since the government in 1992 began selling or redeveloping military lands for industrial and other uses.
Molina said his village ought to get a share from the proceeds of the sale of Fort Bonifacio and other base lands sold by the BCDA.
Molina said the stake of the village, formerly named Camp O' Donnell, came from its being "an honest-to-goodness [United States] facility and not just an extension of Clark."
He said since Clark, Subic and other government agencies were getting funds from the BCDA, his village should also be getting its share from the sale's proceeds. The village council is filing the claim by end of March, he said.
In a statement to the Inquirer, Molina said "several millions of pesos have practically been lost or denied our barangay."
He said this happened because "some national, provincial and municipal officials may have merely overlooked the existence of Republic Act 7227 (base conversion law)."
That law, he said, cited the O' Donnell transmitter station and the Capas relay stations as among the camps and military reservations planned for conversion.
According to him, there was no doubt that Camp O' Donnell was a "real base."
The Japanese Imperial Army, he said, seized the camp in 1942 and turned it into a concentration camp for thousands of Filipino and American soldiers who were forced to join the Death March from Bataan.
In 1991, he said, the government used portions of the camp to build a resettlement site for those displaced by Mt. Pinatubo's 1991 eruptions.
Molina said the amount, which he described as a "fair share" from the BCDA, would be spent for the development of Barangays Cristo Rey, Manlapig, Lawy, Sta. Lucia, Patling and Sta. Juliana. These are located east of the volcano and some 120 km northwest of Manila.
Inquirer Central Luzon Desk
Village demands P10.5B from bases authority
By Tonette Orejas, Inquirer
CLARK SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE--A barangay captain in Tarlac has demanded P10.5 billion from the state-owned Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) to turn his village and adjacent areas into a "model community."
The amount that Kennedy Molina, chair of Barangay Cristo Rey in Capas town, is asking from the BCDA is the first and biggest claim since the government in 1992 began selling or redeveloping military lands for industrial and other uses.
Molina said his village ought to get a share from the proceeds of the sale of Fort Bonifacio and other base lands sold by the BCDA.
Molina said the stake of the village, formerly named Camp O' Donnell, came from its being "an honest-to-goodness [United States] facility and not just an extension of Clark."
He said since Clark, Subic and other government agencies were getting funds from the BCDA, his village should also be getting its share from the sale's proceeds. The village council is filing the claim by end of March, he said.
In a statement to the Inquirer, Molina said "several millions of pesos have practically been lost or denied our barangay."
He said this happened because "some national, provincial and municipal officials may have merely overlooked the existence of Republic Act 7227 (base conversion law)."
That law, he said, cited the O' Donnell transmitter station and the Capas relay stations as among the camps and military reservations planned for conversion.
According to him, there was no doubt that Camp O' Donnell was a "real base."
The Japanese Imperial Army, he said, seized the camp in 1942 and turned it into a concentration camp for thousands of Filipino and American soldiers who were forced to join the Death March from Bataan.
In 1991, he said, the government used portions of the camp to build a resettlement site for those displaced by Mt. Pinatubo's 1991 eruptions.
Molina said the amount, which he described as a "fair share" from the BCDA, would be spent for the development of Barangays Cristo Rey, Manlapig, Lawy, Sta. Lucia, Patling and Sta. Juliana. These are located east of the volcano and some 120 km northwest of Manila.
Inquirer Central Luzon Desk
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