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The original complaints of Alvarez, as stipulated in House Resolution 867, are that the rent/lease/share or whatever of Dapecol/BuCor is so small that the JVA is disadvantageous to the gov't; a 25 year lease instead of the prevailing 10 years plus an issue on ill-treatment of workers. The DOJ was asked to review and junk the JVA on those grounds. CoA also entered the issue by commenting on it with a recommendation that the agreement be fixed. The Solocitor General also made its unsolicited remarks. Heck, even some journalists who do not know the real score joined the fray with flying bullets. And since the allegations, hence the review, have been proven to be of no truth when all laws and provisions of the constitution are laid out and all financials are in, Alvarez and cohorts are throwing issues after issues to find flaws in the agreement to take down Tadeco but to no avail. They even resorted to bullying and intimidating the resource persons just to point out their flawed argument. In effect, the government is spending my taxes on this circus just to have my employment and that of the others stopped and the effective rehabilitation of the national inmates halted. And to think that these people are put in office by the people and to protect the people. They somehow forgot this fact. There was even no mention of the multiple benefits that the JVA has provided for the constituents of Davao del Norte. We just hope and pray that there are still honorable people in the house of representatives who can see through the bush and realize the ill-motives of Alvarez.



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