“Wala pong ilegal or suspicious rito dahil hindi naman po ito trinansfer para i-park lang ang pera kundi para sa isang napakagandang project na makikinabang ang mamamayan at pamahalaan,” Artes said in a press conference.
Metro Manila Development Authority chairperson Romando Artes, Jr. on Thursday assured the public that the P1.1 billion fund transfer the agency got from the Department of Information and Communications Technology is above board and was not spent on a questionable contractor.of making money out of DICT with the P1.1 national broadband project, as well as implementing alleged overpriced programs involving parks and purchase of laptops.
Daza said it is suspicious that only one bidder qualified for the project whom he identified as a joint venture between A-WIN and NET PACIFIC, Inc. “It is still in the Technical Working Group process, we are still evaluating documents. We actually received a lot of inquiries about the project, they asked for terms of reference, but these people did not participate and I don’t know their reason,” he said.
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