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Complaints, alleged anomalies rock Cagayan de Oro's housing program

Published Mar 12, 2023 09:51 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The City Housing and Urban Development Department (CHUDD) here admitted that several people visited its office and provided information pertaining to alleged anomalies in the city's housing program. The reports and information received pushed CHUDD to organize a special team to conduct an investigation to address the matter, said Lawyer Samuel Rollo, CHUDD acting department head, in a phone interview with Manila Bulletin on Sunday, March 12. Rollo said that there were allegations that there are residents living in the relocation sites and socialized housing projects in the city who were not listed in the system, and did not even apply for a housing unit. CHUDD is now trying to verify the reports relating to the alleged involvement of the Homeowners Association (HOA), barangay officials and CHUDD employees for allowing illegal occupants. “Naa pud silay nahibaw-an nga ang nagpapuyo kay opisyal sa ilang homeowners association. Naa silay nahibaw-an nga ang nagpapuyo kay opisyal sa barangay; ug naa pud silay nahibaw-an nga ang nagpapuyo kay sa amo taga opisina (They (complainants) also knew that the person who allowed to [illegally] occupy the unit is an official of their HOA. They also knew that a barangay official had allowed it; and they also knew that the person who was allowed to occupy the unit was an employee from our office),” said Rollo. Rollo said they were currently doing the inventory to validate the said reports, adding that they wanted to personally get the details from the illegal occupants to determine the persons behind the anomaly. The CHUDD acting head also confirmed that they received reports on CHUDD employees allegedly asking money from applicants. Rollo said there are 75 housing subdivisions in the city, although the exact number of housing units is not available. However, based on CHUDD’s official website, the city already has 12,463 housing beneficiaries. Councilor Edgar Cabanlas, chairman of the city council’s committee on urban and rural poor and housing development, felt happy with the investigation initiated by CHUDD but he stressed the need to conduct a parallel investigation to guide the concerned office as to their procedure to avoid anomalies. The CHUDD was established through City Ordinance No. 13175-2016, and is serving as the department handling the housing concerns of the city. Cabanlas said he studied the above-mentioned ordinance and he found out there was a lack of teeth as the CHUDD established divisions with no specific functions. “Wala sad dinha nakabutang ang guidelines kung unsaon ang pagpanghatag sa balay ug yuta (The guidelines are not stated there on how to award the house and the lot),” he added. During their regular session on Monday, March 6, Cabanlas said he intentionally made a special report on the alleged anomalies in CHUDD to get the support of the city council and obtain the official capacity to invite the concerned officials. Cabanlas already made a draft of an ordinance but he needs the participation of the concerned offices to be able to develop it. In his response, Rollo welcomed the measure of Cabanlas and expressed full support as he also acknowledged that the Ordinance No. 13175-2016 was just more on the creation of the department. On the other hand, Councilor Jose Pepe Abbu, Jr. also pushed the conduct of inventory on the housing units to determine the number of unoccupied slots, adding that some of the units were already damaged and in bad shape. Relative to this, Rollo said part of the investigation is to determine why some unoccupied housing units have been reserved. “As far as the information nga atong nakuha, sa ato lang mga kauban, gi-reserve for no reasons given. Wala gibutang kung kinsa ang nag reserve ug nganong gi-reserve (As far as the information we received is concerned, from our workers, it was reserved [referring to some of the housing units] for no reasons given. It was not stated who made the reservation and why it was reserved),” said Rollo. Rollo said if the unoccupied socialized housing units were awarded to the beneficiaries, they would have been prevented from deteriorating.
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