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Philippine navy 76mm shell bidding; corruption??
Topic Started: Apr 20 2009, 10:49 PM (866 Views)
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Garcia conviction didn't erase military corruption
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc Updated April 20, 2009 12:00 AM

You’d think that after lawmen went hammer and tongs at a thieving military comptroller in 2004, generals would dither to steal from the coffers. Think again. Records piling up with the Deputy Ombudsman for Military show some officers to be as brazen as Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia in stealing. Clearly there’s been a glitch somewhere, between the plugging of bidding loopholes that Garcia had exploited and the ascendancy of new officers. A succession of scams has hit the headlines, including recruitment bribery by Army auxiliaries and overpricing of Air Force helicopters. One rocking the Navy appears to beat them all.

A supplier of cannon ammo swears that the bids committee set him up to be disqualified from a P65-million purchase last January. The modus was simple. The bids secretary told the supplier he didn’t need to submit one original and seven copies of technical-financial papers, but only the usual 1-plus-4. Informed twice that it was the vice chairman’s wish, he complied. On bidding day, however, the chairman declared him non-compliant with the new 1-plus-7 rule and thus debarred. Only one other bidder was left, who turned in an offer P15 million higher than the framed supplier. The vice chair shamefacedly admitted to having instructed the secretary to tell the supplier to dispense with the 1-plus-7 requisite. This info emboldened the latter to plead for reconsideration. But during the ensuing hearing, the bids lawyer coached the secretary to lie under oath. It was then that the vice chair whispered to the supplier that the members had been bought P1 million each to rig the bidding.

What’s it to us? Well, our soldiers could have used that P15-million bribe, if saved, for extra Navy shells to cover their assaults on terrorist or separatist lairs. Corruption can be deadly.

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While citizens reel from the global financial crisis, officials are raking it big. Senators still have their P200-million pork per year, congressmen P70 million. Most ask for 20-25 percent cut to grant contracts. One senator is so greedy, however, that he demands 55 percent — 50 for him and 5 for his chief of staff. Now what kind of road can a contractor build, or medicine to sell, with “tong-pats” as big as that?

Local officials are into it too. In a town in Iloilo the mayor purchased two second-hand reconditioned dump trucks for P2.1 million each. His supplier, a close friend, had bought the units for only P200,000 apiece. The return on investment was “piso mo tama ng barko”. Thus encouraged, the mayor then ordered more second-hand items: steamrollers, backhoes, graders, luxury sedans, SUVs, and irrigation pumps.

At the public works office in faraway Cordilleras, officials are playing with P3.4 billion for the President’s “flagship projects.” About P700 million already has been stolen in overpriced and non-existent purchases.

Why are they so brazen? Because they know that investigators, prosecutors and judges can be bribed to clear them.

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E-mail: jariusbondoc@workmail.com
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Isama mo na diyan yun 1B peso intelligence fund ng Speaker. No idea kung ano pang mga hidden funds nila at kahit legal kung ano pa yun mga ginagawang kalokohan.

This really is sickening. Parang hindi kapwa nila sundalo ang namamatay sa battlefields. O mga kababayan o kapwa Pinoy.
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Yung corruption sa purchases at sobrang dami ng Infantry Divisions (meaning too many operational funds up for grabs) ang dahilan bakit hindi nila tinatapos ang Abu Sayyaf.

Tapos yung mga sundalo sa baba, lusob ng lusob. Madami na naman namatay sa kanila. Namatay sa pag-aakalang kasama nila sa laban ang mga opisyal nila na mga bulok pala ang utak.
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maybe this cannon shells are gold-plated deluxe shells hehehe
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A supplier of cannon ammo swears that the bids committee set him up to be disqualified from a P65-million purchase last January. The modus was simple. The bids secretary told the supplier he didn’t need to submit one original and seven copies of technical-financial papers, but only the usual 1-plus-4. Informed twice that it was the vice chairman’s wish, he complied. On bidding day, however, the chairman declared him non-compliant with the new 1-plus-7 rule and thus debarred. Only one other bidder was left, who turned in an offer P15 million higher than the framed supplier. The vice chair shamefacedly admitted to having instructed the secretary to tell the supplier to dispense with the 1-plus-7 requisite. This info emboldened the latter to plead for reconsideration. But during the ensuing hearing, the bids lawyer coached the secretary to lie under oath. It was then that the vice chair whispered to the supplier that the members had been bought P1 million each to rig the bidding.


old modus na to, even in civilian govt agencies.



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Madami na naman namatay sa kanila. Namatay sa pag-aakalang kasama nila sa laban ang mga opisyal nila na mga bulok pala ang utak.


hindi utak ang bulok, kundi ang kaluluwa. :headbang:
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:crawling: may be they need more than just 76 mm i hope that they can procure more like 90mm,120mm
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76mm NAVAL GUN SHELLS
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FOR THE JACINTO CLASS/BRP EMILIO JACINTO/BRP ARTEMIO RICARTE
/BRP APOLINARIO MABINI CORVETTE OPV guns


The Otobreda 76 mm gun is a widely used naval artillery piece built by the Italian company Otobreda. A vehicle-mounted version known as the Otomatic was built for the SPAAG role, although this was not put into production.

It is capable of very high rates of fire, making it suitable for short-range anti-missile point defence. Its calibre also gives it abilities for anti-aircraft, anti-surface and ground shelling. Specialised ammunition is available for armour piercing, incendiary and directed fragmentation. A new stealth cupola has been designed in recent years.

The system is compact enough to be installed on relatively small warships, like corvettes, avisos, or patrol boats. It is a successful matériel in export, in use in 53 navies.

It has recently been favoured over the French 100 mm naval gun for the new Horizon CNGF frigates.

On 27 September 2006 Iran announced it has started mass production of a marine artillery gun, named the Fajr-27, which is a reverse-engineered Oto Melara 76 mm gun.[1]
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