Toboso

Various projects worth more than P300-M have been apportioned to several construction companies in the First Engineering District of the province which spans the whole of the districts in what a highly-reliable sources, all monitors of the Whistleblowers’ Association for Reforms and Responsible Action for Nationalist Transformation (WARRANT), said was a continuing anomalous implementation of a bidding process, manipulated by key contractors and consented to by all those who have participated in the bidding process.

Accounting graduate and specialist, Penuel Tanio is the secretary-general of WARRANT. It is in turn a member of the anti-graft umbrella organization, the Federation of Whistleblowers in Negros (FWIN), headed by former rebel leader Nemesio Demafiles. FWIN has several member-groups and organizations including Bangon Candoni, Hugpong Kabalaka, Claims and Assistance Processing Office (CAPO), Micosup Cooperative and another big anti-graft group, organized by Demafiles. Other officials of WARRANT include former officials of barangays in the city.

Gov. Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr. led in the inauguration of a two-classroom building constructed at the Uldarico Suison Elementary School in Brgy. San Jose, Municipality of Toboso, Friday. The project that cost P1.4 Million was funded by the provincial government of Negros Occidental.

(Left photo) Gov. Alfredo G. Maranon, Jr. (3rd from left) leads in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, together with Board Members Nehemias Dela Cruz, Sr. and Melvin Ibañez, and Mayor Evello Valencia of Toboso, during the inauguration of the newly constructed two-classroom building in Uldarico Suison Elementary School (right photo) in Brgy. San Jose, Municipality of Toboso, last Friday.*(Capitol photo)

Negros Occidental governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. is accusing 1st District Congressman Jules Ledesma for allegedly grabbing credit for the impending implementation of a road network in Toboso town, in northern Negros Occidental.

Marañon yesterday, November 7, 2012 led the groundbreaking for the three-kilometer Pulopangyan-Pasto-Salvacion, Brgy. Magticol Road, in the Municipality of Toboso, one of the two road sections to be undertaken by the Philipine Army Engineering Battalion in the area.

Farmer Vicente Villanueva, of San Jose Village, Toboso town in Northern Negros could have been a victim of summary execution carried out by Sgt. Levi Tejamo, a member of the 61st IB now based in Iloilo, his mother, Betty and witness who testified during a press conference in Bacolod City last October 30, said, as well as Karapatan-Negros Secretary-General Fred Caña.

A day earlier, Toboso town Police Chief, Sr. Insp. Danilo Zuniega, testified and aired over several media outlets that the victim, Vicente Villanueva had been shot by Tejamo, a classmate of his when they quarreled and debated over ideological issues because the latter, was supposedly a member of the NPA.