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A ‘confused’ deal

Posted by: Alecks P. Pabico | September 21, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Filed under: Governance, In the News

ON the cover page of the document signed by Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza on behalf of the Philippine government in Baoa in the Chinese province of Hainan last April 21, 2007, the title reads: “Contract for the Supply of Equipment and Services for the National Broadband Network Project.”

The term “contract,” in fact, appears numerous times in the document. So much so that Mendoza, when quizzed by senators at yesterday’s hearing about the nature of the document he signed, had to accede that it was indeed a supply contract, but with a qualifier. “It’s a conditional contract under an executive agreement.”

Download a copy of the reconstituted ZTE supply contract submitted to the Senate.

Mendoza went on to say that unlike other foreign financial institutions, the Export-Import Bank of China that will extend a concessional loan to the government to bankroll the project requires a conditional supply contract ahead of an executive agreement. Despite being contrary to legally mandated procedures, such a requirement becomes a convenient justification for a lot of things. Because it’s part of an executive agreement, the contract is exempt from public bidding mandated by the procurement law. It is also exempt from the ban on projects during the election campaign period.

But has an executive agreement already been signed? The first page of the supply contract says so, in fact, as one of the premises that led to its signing by Mendoza and Yu Yong, vice president of Zhong Xing Telecommunications Equipment Limited (ZTE) in Hainan last April 21. The third to the last page of the contract also sets the executive agreement ratified by both governments on the basis of a letter of Chinese Ambassador Li Jinjun to then Presidential Chief of Staff Michael Defensor as a precondition to its effectivity.

Cabinet officials, however, admitted the senators that there is as yet no executive agreement, much more a loan agreement. Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. acknowledged as much when he said, “The contract signed by Secretary Mendoza is unenforceable at this time until there is a loan agreement.”

Makes you wonder why it had to be hastily signed in the first place.

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Many Filipino political observers think that investigations into the aborted ZTE-NBN deal should really be pursued and criminal charges (mukhang guilty, kasi) be made. Let’s find the bridge first and cross it. As I understand from media reports, the original documents related to the deal were either lost or stolen. Let’s say lost because if stolen means we have a thief that nobody probably can name.

In place of the original documents are “RECONSTITUTED” versions that have surfaced. Jacking up figures by some 30 - 40% will easily show- SOLID PROOF- in papers. They cannot be hidden under careful scrutiny. Whatever is the result of the investigations; will the reconstituted papers stand and hold water in court, if used as evidence, should charges be filed? If positive, I guess one of the fall-back positions of those in the defense is that they approved the deal without any idea that they were highly overpriced (as presently assumed). To admit ineptitude not deserving to be in office but not plunderers that should land in jail.

Documents to some reported P42 billion PhP transactions got easily lost? I guess somebody must have tossed it idly aside in some office where a rat had chanced upon it. What an expensive nest they must have built! Smartest kind of rat, too, I should say.

Rod

RLTJ wrote on October 3, 2007 - 3:52 pm | Visit Link

Rod, first time I heard of such nonsense re: contract being lost. our govt officials are really very creative, what you think?

jr_lad wrote on October 4, 2007 - 2:37 am | Visit Link

Another way of putting it is INCREDIBLE. Loss of election CoCs was probably co-incidental- bad coincidence. When people have lost credibility they have lost everything. They can cry wolf in the face of a real wolf and nobody will believe them. I think Mr Abalos is man enough to see and accept his situation. Very few people are capable of seeing themselves even before a mirror.

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