By Nora Soriño
Iligan City Bureau Chief .
Iligan City — This city’s vice mayor has denied that the biscuits served in each of the council session is overpriced.
Asked whether it’s true that the city government had purchased biscuits costing P180 each during sessions, Vice Mayor Jemar Vera Cruz yesterday said simply “is not true.”
He added suppliers usually take their time in collecting the payments for such and it takes months to collect the goods that they have supplied.
He said he does not know where the “detractors” got that amount computed as the cost of each biscuit, stressing again that “this is not true.”
Besides, Vera Cruz added these had all passed the Bids and Awards Committee and they had approved it.
To recall, the city government had received flak because of the alleged overprice of biscuits costing that much which was revealed by supporters of his opponents, citing documents which they said they have with them.
Media practitioners too raised a howl upon hearing that one document said “meals and snacks were served” during one Sangguniang Panlungsod session in 2018 when it was not true.
Frank Dosdos, Jr., a reporter who had attended a session and on which he said he had signed as among the attendees of the session said in an interview that there were no meals or snacks served during the said session.
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