ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas declared Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) Region 6 director Nora Patron a “persona non-grata” in this city for not intervening in the issues hounding the Iloilo City Government Employees Multipurpose Cooperative (ICGEMPC).
The CDA is a government agency in charge of the registration and regulation of cooperatives.
Executive Order No. 129 issued by Treñas yesterday states that Patron ignored the pleas for help of the city government and members of ICGEMPC.
The city mayor stressed that Patron instead issued Certificates of Compliance which were used by ICGEMPC officials to justify acts that the city government and cooperative members are questioning.
According to Treñas, as early as June this year the director had been requested for a consultative meeting to intervene and resolve the issues of the ICGEMPC but the requests were ignored.
ICGEMPC has been suffering from financial losses attributable to questionable loan transactions which to date amount to more than P31 million, and the dissipation of the capital share of its members, added Treñas, but that these matters have not been acted upon by the CDA, in violation of its mandate to coordinate with the efforts of local government units and the private sector in the development of cooperatives.
Treñas said the CDA-6 has indeed examined the financial records of the ICGEMPC but notwithstanding the identification of questionable loans still issued Certificates of Compliance.
And instead of enforcing the pertinent provisions of Republic Act No. 6938 as amended by Republic Act No. 9520, as well as other pertinent issuances of the CDA, the CDA-6 ignored the pleas of the city government and ICGEMPC members, which have the effect of protecting questionable acts at CGEMPC, Treñas added.
This “hampers and disrupts the efforts of the members of the ICGEMPC to cleanse their ranks, and to recoup the funds of the cooperative,” Treñas’ EO stated./PN
