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After months of delay, a seven-man committee tasked to investigate the alleged controversial purchase of the Balili beach property by the Capitol has finally submitted its findings to Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia.
The committee headed by National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) Medardo de Lemos submitted its report on the Balili lot purchase at around 2 p.m. yesterday.
NBI director Medardo De Lemos declined to issue any statement on the content of the report of the committee which investigated the lot purchase which also implicated several capitol officials including governor Garcia.
De Lemos said the committee members submitted their individual assessment on the Balili lot purchase.
But De Lemos said they had to come up with common recommendations to Governor Garcia who created the executive committee.
He said it would be up to the governor to release the findings to the public.
Garcia yesterday confirmed receipt of the report from the NBI. ?Ako pa to'ng basahon (I still have to read it),? she said.
But the governor assured that she would give a copy of the report after reading it. She said she might release it to the public in a few days.
The report contained the decision of the seven-man committee created by the Capitol to investigate the controversial lot purchase in 2006. They met for the last time on Wednesday before submitting its report to Governor Garcia yesterday.
Capitol consultant Rory Jon Sepulveda, one of the committee members, said it would be up to the discretion of the governor to reveal the contents of the report.
The committee was created by Governor Garcia through Executive Order 13 issued last Aug. 24, 2009 to look into the possible administrative and criminal liabilities of persons involved in the acquisition of the lot located in barangay Tinaan in Naga City in 2008.
De Lemos was tasked to head the probe body and to submit its findings within 30 days. Its members include Capitol Consultants Sepulveda and Manolette Dinsay, Provincial Planning Officer Adolfo Quiroga, Provincial Board Members Peter John Calderon, Victor Maambong and Agnes Magpale.
The Capitol bought 24.7 hectares of land owned by the late engineer Luis Balili in barangay Tinaan in Naga City for P98.9 million.
In a technical report, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) confirmed that 82 percent or 20.2 hectares out of the 24.7 hectare Balili property in Naga was timberland or public land.
The ad hoc committee was tasked to determine if there was something irregular in the Balili land purchase and to identify the personalities involved and those who benefited from the purchase, if there were any.
The investigation committee was also asked to look into reports that most portions of the Balili property were submerged in seawater and had spurious titles.
