| People power vs Dasureco BOD set on Saturday |
| Written by Eldie S. Aguirre | |
| Friday, 14 November 2008 | |
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Governor Douglas Cagas who led more than ten thousand people in the protest action against the existing members of Davao del Sur Electric Cooperative (Dasureco) board of directors on November 3 is calling for a “people power” on Saturday.
Cagas who is apparently irked over the continuous disregard of Dasureco board members to resign from their respective position vowed to gather more than 50 thousand member/consumers of the electric cooperative on November 15.
The governor insisted that the current board members should not be there since their term of office have expired three years ago.
“They are using the writ of preliminary prohibitory injunction the court has issued to retain their posts in the electric cooperative depriving other member/consumers to participate in an election,” Cagas said.
He said town mayors and Mayor Arsenio Latasa of Digos City pledged to support his “ultimate” move against the board of directors.
“It is unfair that the directors used the National Electrification Administration (NEA) Election Code of 1993 to become officers of the board then questioned the legality of the same law after they exhausted their terms of office,” the governor said.
Cagas also lashed at RTC-18 presiding Judge Marivic Daray for the issuance of the injunction saying she should have dropped the complaint filed in the year 2005 for lack of jurisdiction over the case.
“NEA is a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial body. Therefore, the case must fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court – not before the regional trial court,” Cagas said.
He said Artemio Tajon, Dasureco board chairman, Clemente Quiñonez, and Perfecto Ordaneza are using their influence being members of the provincial prosecutors’ office.
“They are using the law to rule in their favor,” Cagas said.
However, Tajon in a media interview said the board of directors is holding their respective positions by virtue of the writ of preliminary prohibitory injunction issued on 2005.
The board of directors is waiting for the court to decide on the main case seeking for the nullification of the NEA Election Code of 1993 that triggered the issuance of the injunction order.
Cagas said they should not hide under the clout of the injunction order since they fairly know that their continued existence as officers of the board is highly “immoral” banking on the fact that there are prosecutors among them who explicitly knows what the law provides. Eldie S. Aguirre, Inquirer Mindanao |