IT IS amusing how former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña, former city administrator Nigel Paul Villarete and Joel Mari Yu of the Cebu Investment Promotion Center (CIPC) are using the Japanese government to defend a city ordinance passed by Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK) barring Mayor Michael Rama from selling South Road Properties (SRP) lots.
Yet seemingly unknown to the three of them, Jica recently tapped a firm, Sanshu Engineering Consultant, to evaluate the SRP. Yasuhiro Kawabata of Sanshu gave the SRP an overall rating of D or unsatisfactory.
He noted, among others, that only a portion of the SRP has been developed about 18 years after it was implemented, thus the “achievement of the project’s objectives is at an extremely limited level compared with the original plan.”
Certainly, an unsatisfactory rating for the SRP does not speak well of the manner Osmeña, who has refused to relinquish his control of the project’s development even if he is already a private citizen, and his cohorts have been running the SRP’s affairs.
Their swagger is incongruous with how the SRP is actually managed. And their claim to knowing how the Japanese government wants the SRP to be developed is belied by the result of the Jica evaluation.
Osmena and his allies seems to drag down the City of Cebu rather than letting it grow Read the complete Cebu Sunstar article at this link
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/opinion/2013/11/30/editorial-srp-s-unsatisfactory-grade-316361
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