OPINYON: Problema sa Daneco

oct 15

TSA PWERA

Ni Cha Monforte

May dakong problema ang mga konsumante sa Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative. Kini mo ang matag karon ug unya nga brownout. Matud pa sa bag-o nga presidente sa Board of Directors nga si Dean Briz kulang ang supply sa kurente nga moabot sa di momenus sa 10 megawatts gikan sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines. Matud pa ni Briz ang kanunayng may brownout mao ang mga lungsod sa Laak ug Monkayo. Nagsingabot na pod ang power crisis nga makaapekto gayud sa atong mga probinsya. Usa kini ka dakong problema sa katawhan busa dakong hagit kani sa atong mga lideres, labi na kadtong nagaposisyon na nga mahimong Presidente sa nasud.

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Kining National Gird Corporation (NGCP) mao na ang pribadong kumpanyang mi-takeover sa paghatod sa kuryente sa tibouk nasud nga kanhi gigunitan sa National Transmission Corporation kun TransCo sukad niadtong miaging Enero 15, 2009. Usa kani ka consortium nga gilangkuban sa mga kumpanyang Monte Oro Grid Resources Corporation (MOGRC), State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and Calaca High Power Corporation (CHPC). Gi-bidding man gud sa gobyerno ang franchise sa pagmentenar sa transmission network kurente sa tibuok nasud subay sa programang privatization ug kining consortium mao ang midaug. Singkwenta pa ka tuig ang termino sa prankisa sa NGCP.

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Hagit kani sa kasamtangang opsiyales sa Daneco sa pakigsabot sa NGCP aron katagaan kita ug permanente ug stable nga kuryente kay ang problema sa kasamtangan anaa pa man sa power transmission ug delivery, ug dili pa kaayo sa power generation, kung atong ikonsiderar nga may mga dapit sa Mindanao nga gamay ra ang power demand. O basi nagsige pa gihapon sila ug away kabahin sa isyu nga kinsa ba gayud ang mahimong general manager sa Daneco human mipanaw ang kanhi GM Edgar Savellano.

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Tabi lang Daneco BOD president Briz paki esplika lang kung nganong mi text ka man kang OIC GM Allan Laniba kung aduna bay siyay permiso nga mobiyahe sa Manila. Didto na si Laniba sa kauluhan dihang imo siyang gipangutana pinaagi sa text. OIC GM biya si Laniba ug matud pa dugay na nga may BOD resolution nga di na gikinahanglan nga mangayo ug permiso ang GM sa BOD kung siya mobiyahe. Gikinahanglan nga may independensya ang Daneco management sa pagdumala sa kooperatiba matag adlaw kay basig wa nay mabuhat kini kung matag karon ug unya, ug pati sa mga gagmay nga mga transaksyones gikinahanglan ang permiso sa BOD. Yuna pa, di ba policy-making lang ang papel sa Daneco BOD? Mora mag nagapanghilabot na ang mga apil-apilong Daneco directors sa management sukad na OIC GM si Laniba.

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Apan sa laing bahin, mora pog tama kini pag-inistrikto ni Briz kay kabalo biya ta nga sa panahon pa ni Amacio hangtud kang Savellano gamhanan gayud ang GM sanglit morag di na makit-an sa mga tag-iyang konsumante kung unsa gayud ang mga transaksyones sa Daneco. Nan, ang pagpaklaro sa mga minilyong transakyones sa Daneco o kung unsa gayud ang tinoud nga estado sa pinansya sa kooperatiba maoy indikasyon nga ang bag-ong BOD presidente ug bag-ong OIC GM gusto nga ipatumaw ang prinsipyong transparency alasng sa kaayuhan sa kooperatiba ug sa iyang mga konsumante. Mga sir, kumusta na man ang mga disbursements diha? Napakgang na ba ang mga kawatan sa Daneco?

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Morag natakdan na man gud ning Daneco sa sakit sa atong burukrasya sa gobyerno. May mga tawong gusto nga mag weder-weder, o kung anaa na sa posisyon mo take advantage pa pod aron magpakadato. Miestorya lang kita dire sa sakit sa organisasyon ug wa ta mitumbok ug tawo, buhi ba o patay. Hangtud wa kitay ebedensya, kutob lang kita sa obserbasyon sa mga panghitabo. Pero kining mga panghitabo tinoud biya. Daghang nadato nga mga opisyales sa gobyerno- mga kongresman, gobernador, mayor ug uban pa tungod sa ilang paghupot ug public position. Ug kutob na lang kita sa obserbasyon.

(e-mail: chamonforte@yahoo.com)

Filed under: Allan Laniba, Dean Briz, daneco , Allan Laniba, daneco, Dean Briz

BALITA: “Laniba dili angayan nga ma Daneco GM”- Mayor Uy

“Laniba dili angayan nga ma Daneco GM”- Mayor Uy Ni Cha Monforte Mao gihapon ang panglantaw ni Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy nga ang kasamtangang OIC General Manager sa Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative nga si Allan Laniba dili angayan nga molingkod isip full-pledged GM. “He should not be there (Dili angayan siya nga anaa diha),” pamulong pa sa mayor sa dakdaban nga maoy pinakadako nga nagakonsumo sa sugang dagitabnon sa tibouk service area nga Compostela Valley, isla sa Samal ug Davao del Norte gawas sa mga lungsod sa Panabo ug Sto. Tomas. “(Daneco needs a) highly competent, highly technical person… and who has managerial capacity,” dugang pa ni Uy sa pakighinabi kaniya kagahapon. “IQ (intelligence quotient) is not enough (Dili sarang ang IQ), training is enough,” tubag sa mayor sa pangutana kabahin sa kapasidad sa pagdumala sa Daneco sa usa ka GM. Matud pa ni Ed Valdez, tigpamaba sa mayor sa lokal nga media, wa pa gihapon gipublisar sa Daneco kung bakante na ba ang position sa Daneco sa usa ka nasudnong mantalaan ug “mora kinig ilang gitagoan”. “Kinahanglan nga ipublisar na ang posisyon aron nga kini maaplayan na sa bisan kinsa nga kwalipikado gikan sa Aparri hangtud sa Jolo,” dugang pa ni Valdez. Una nang nagpakita ug interes nga mangaplay pagka Daneco GM si Konsehal Mylene Baura, nga usa ka abugada ug certified public accountant. Si Laniba, 35 anyos, nagsugod sa pagpanarbaho sa Daneco sa 1998 ug nakasobra sa 10 ka tuig pa nga nangempleyo sa kooperatiba. Siya gitan-aw nga usa ka protege sa namatayng GM Edgardo Savellano. Sa pagpanaw ni Savellano niadtong Hunyo 19, 2009 tungod sa tumor sa iyang spinal cord, si Laniba dayon ang mipuli isip OIC GM sa Daneco. Gikataho nga may suporta si Laniba sa Daneco Board of Directors sa pagpangulo pa sa kanhi BOD presidente Antonio Sebumpan, apan niadtong Sabado dihang nahitabo ang usa ka reorganisasyon napulihan si Sebumpan pagkapresidente ni Dean Briz, ang Tagum city budget officer ug gitan-aw nga protege ni Mayor Uy, sa giingong di pa matinong sirkumtansya sa piniliay. Gitext kagahapon si Laniba para sa iyang reaksyon pero hangtud sa pagsulat niani wala gihapon siya mitubag.

Filed under: Allan Laniba, tagum mayor rey uy , Allan Laniba, tagum mayor rey uy

OPINION: Rump company for Nonoy’s sake

BLOGISTA
By Cha Monforte

sept 17
It’s foremost queer, nay unique or maybe a subterfuge depending on one’s jaded eyes that a governor’s son would call for an obviously anti-administration campaign, that is his vocal support to the presidential bid of Senator Noynoy Aquino, right inside the backyard where his father sits as the top honcho of the threatened administration party now- the Lakas-CMD or Lakas-Kampi-CMD, whatever that is in Davao del Norte.
That was Anthony G. del Rosario (AGR in political nick), the former vice governor, did last week in declaring his vocal support to Noynoy at a media forum right inside the Capitol at Mankilam in Tagum. From that cue, Boardmember Antonio Lagunzad called for the same for Nonoy but not without leaving a caveat of getting first an imprimatur from the governor whom he professes to high heavens as he’s too loyal of (as though he alone is too loyal to the governor in the Capitol. What about the members of the cordon sanitaire gob?). There were also two others, an appointed one from Carmen town and the other, an elected one from Samal island, who drew a rather blurred line against the coming Lakas presidential timber as seen in a photo-op with AGR for Noynoy’s sake.
Now the Malacanang’s political operators are not again that naive. AGR’s political statements clearly mean he already burned the bridges with Arroyos, for siding with the Good than the Evil. And if Evil is Malacanang to critical writers and commentators, the Palace’s Big Brother eyes might have been already furious for the governor’s continued silence to his son’s statements and political activities that are now rocking the boat- that he is steering without an assembly of Lakas tripolantes.
The public visibility cast by such rump company of Noynoy’s supporters closely connected to the governor, who up until now is still a Lakas partidista, to borrow the oft-repeated line of last-termer 1st District Cong. Arrel Olano, only smacks an image of a divided Capitol. But pundits say that Gov. RDR can’t yet jump ship to the opposition, despite that he no longer has a “Tadeco to protect”  as leaving the administration party would open up the Lakas-Kampi-CMD up for grabs by and control of the Floirendos, the acknowledged kingmaker in the province’s District 2, leaving RDR vulnerable in his reelection bid.
For such, the spectre of seeing the governor to be mum over his son’s political stance, coupled with the spectre of him holding on at bay a political inertia, foremost of not calling for a big assembly of Lakas and Kampi leaders and members as this will exclude AGR, has now generated second guessing game in the Capitol and entire province after AGR’s health became the first that cracked up.
But this is obviously putting pressures to the governor, one from Malacanang, and the other from his partymates and the voting public as seeing him sticking it out with Lakas-Kampi-CMD, and putting no one as standard bearer for the 1st district congressional post, obviously to reserve it to AGR as possibly an adopted candidate, who is already with the opposition for now, is a height of political trickery and duplicity. This would not really sit well with an ultra-envious Malacanang, while there is this dignified option of following the path of AGR now, or putting the latter on gag order while he’s inside and working at the Capitol. Or better still, AGR has to resign as provincial employee and put up his own private political headquarters somewhere else outside the confines of the Capitol.
A private citizen AGR? Why not! That’s fine to many Noynoy’s supporters around waiting for a leader to rally for them for Noynoy’s sake.
BLOGBITS: BM Tony Lagunzad is a Coryista. He was appointed the OIC mayor in Tagum after EDSA Uno. But he was defeated by Vice Gov. Baby Suaybaguio when he ran as regular mayor, while seven of his OIC councilors won….. Now he’s at it again, wanting to jump first while asking somebody to hold him not to….. Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy did not mince his words in my last Monday interview of calling Daneco OIC GM Allan Laniba as “not right (person) to be there”. Way Labad na ana si Laniba mayor. I mean he’s also ready not to become the full-pledged Daneco….. Comval Boardmember Maricar Apsay has now a contender for the congressional post in the District 1- Atty. Jun Lopoz, former Ombudsman for Mindanao lawyer, university professor, former community organizer, ex-student activist, who has been on private practice for over 10 years. His slogan: kursunada! His battlecry: “lipay, lingaw, daug!”…… Comvalenyos are getting thrilled of Atty. Jun- Kursunda! than giving the congressional post to BM Maricar without a fight. That’s what an election, piniliay is- dapat may pilion ta! (For comments, email: chamonforte@yahoo.com)

Filed under: Allan Laniba, Tagum City Mayor Rey, agr del rosario, anthony rafael del rosario, atty. jun lopoz, boardmember tony lagunzad, maricar zamora-apsay , agr del rosario, Allan Laniba, anthony rafael del rosario, atty. jun lopoz, boardmember tony lagunzad, maricar zamora-apsay, Tagum City Mayor Rey

NEWS: Daneco GM Savellano still on leave since February due to spine injury

april 30

The general manager of the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative has remained to be on leave since February due to a certain injury in his spine at the back which he reportedly got after massage session made by a manghihilot.
But Daneco GM Edgar Savellano said in a text message that his doctor has still advised him to go for further rest adding that he has never had the time to take a rather long leave to rest since then in his long years of serving the electric cooperative.
Savellano has been working in Daneco for over 30 years now, climbing in the organizational ladder from being a mere employee in early 70s to being the man in charge at its helm as the third GM starting in 1999.
He took over the reins of the coop from his predecessor late Engr. Ricardo Tio, who had a brief GM stint and who succeeded the first and longest serving late GM Atty. Jose Amacio.
Savellano is considered as one of the pioneers and pillars in the growth of Daneco in its 37 years of existence.
Inside sources from Daneco Tagum office said that since February all the seven department managers in a series have been having brief stints of becoming OIC GM.
Last Tuesday, finance department manager Elsie Mationg effectively retired, resulting to the reshuffling of managers to other departments, said the new administrative Rose Traje in an interview.
By April, institutional services manager Allan Laniba started serving as OIC GM.
Laniba, who is 35 years old, is considered as the youngest, senior after the age of new finance manager Marilou Impuesto. He started working in Daneco sometime in 1998-1999.
A few Daneco members interviewed said Laniba is “under-age” to steer on the wheels of a billion cooperative amidst the regular occurrences of Daneco brownouts these days and the looming energy crisis ahead.
Daneco has over 120,000 member-consumers at present. For its 37 years of existence now from 1971, Daneco is already billionaire cooperative deriving about P1.2-billion operating revenue as of November 2007, per official Daneco report.

The electric cooperative covers the entire Compostela Valley and most of Davao del Norte areas including the Island Garden of Samal.It has already energized 100 percent of the barangays under its coverage areas.

Meanwhile, a weekly publisher Ciriaco Boy Conejos has called on Laniba, who has reportedly become a de facto GM owing to the resolution of the Daneco’s Board of  Directors, to resign as the president National Press Club- Davao del Norte-Comval Chapter due to “conflict of interest“.
“He could not serve two masters as the same time,” Conejos said adding that Laniba should also resign as a barangay kagawad of Apokon, Tagum City.
Even as a Daneco information man, Laniba styled himself as a mediaman.
Laniba, at press time, could not be reached for comment.   (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)

Filed under: 20129616, Allan Laniba, Ciriaco Boy Conejos, Daneco GM Edgar Savellano, Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative, Engr. Ricardo Tio, GM Atty. Jose Amacio, Marilou Impuesto , Allan Laniba, Ciriaco Boy Conejos, Daneco GM Edgar Savellano, Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative, Engr. Ricardo Tio, GM Atty. Jose Amacio, Marilou Impuesto