Photo courtesy of SB member Jing Pulvera’s official Facebook page.
The money were supposedly remitted to transport operators posing as representatives of the mayor’s office in the previous administrations.
“I feel irritated upon learning about this so I ordered to stop this kind of syndicate,” Bravo told Sangguniang Bayan (SB) members in her deliberation about her plans for the first 100 days during the municipal council’s first regular session on Monday.
According to the mayor, the “bangag” operators were supposedly given permit by the mayor of the past administrations to demand at least 10 percent of the total fares collected by dispatchers; it could even be more if the passenger vehicle has full capacity.
Reports gathered by MindaNews showed that this illicit money-making scheme had been going on during the last three local government administrations and the alleged operators had enriched themselves by up to millions of pesos.
A former SB member who chaired the committee on public market and terminal requesting anonymity disclosed that a female operator raked in at least P200,000 in monthly earnings from the extra collections.
He explained that it is called “bangag” (which translates to “hole”) in the same way that the portal of the mining tunnel is also called – because it is as if the operators found a wealth of gold with the money they were getting. The racket is sometimes called “bina” (or “vein”), a mining lingo referring to cracks in rock formations where concentration of minerals, like gold, are found.||| |||buy zithromax online with |||
Bravo learned that a dispatcher she knows would remit to the female operator P300 per day.
Under the mayor’s new policy, the associations of the drivers and operators would manage order at the terminals.||| |||buy amoxicillin online with |||
