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Unilever, Gawad Kalinga donate Baseco row houses

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim led the unveiling on Monday of 10 row houses in Baseco, Tondo, donated by Unilever Philippines and Gawad Kalinga.

At the turnover rites, he was joined by community folks in thanking Unilever chairman Fernando Fernandez and vice president Chito Macapagal along with Gawad Kalinga executive director Tony Meloto for uplifting the lives of residents.

Unilever has conveyed over 30 houses with 30 more units and two commercial buildings for delivery in two years, according to a statement of the company.

Lim noted that the previous administration started to enforce a measure reclassifying the land occupied by Unilever to residential giving the multinational giant seven years to leave Manila.

“Why ask Unilever to leave when it has been helping us in all our requirements during Christmas, disasters and fires and now the company is donating 10 rowhouses and is putting up a wholesome community?” he wondered.

Last year, Macapagal announced that if the company would be driven away, it would relocate to other countries.

“When I learned of that, I stopped Unilever from its plan and had an ordinance crafted by the City Council to make the company stay. They have been here helping the city for the past 82 years especially during calamities and in providing employment to so many people,” Lim said.

According to Fernandez, Unilever shares Gawad Kalinga’s mission of creating peaceful and productive communities.

“The contributions of each Unilever employee to build these homes have made a big difference in the lives of the people who will now have a place to call their own. And we are happy to have been part of it,” he said.

Unilever Vitality Village has a day care center, youth and sports section and a plaza.

To help maintain the facilities, employee contributions are pooled and matched by the company.

Lim happy about case dismissal

Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim is now happy with the recent dismissal of the complaint against him and Vice Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso claiming that the complaint by the Social Justice Society filed before the Ombudsman's office was "politically motivated from the very start."

The complaint on conduct prejudicial to public interest and violation of oath office was filed by the SJS advocates represented by Atty. Vladimir Alarique Cabigao, a candidate for councilor in the party of Lim's opponent Joselito Atienza Jr. The case alleged that Lim and Moreno, in signing Ordinance No. 8187 which amended Ordinance 8027 reverting to industrial classification the land use of the Pandacan oil depot, indirectly repealed a Supreme Court decision in SJS Vladimir Alarique T. Cabigao and Bonifacio Tumbokon vs. Jose L. Atienza Jr.

Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez, who signed the resolution, cited Section 20 of RA 6770, otherwise known as The Ombudsman Act of 1989 where "the Office of the Ombudsman may not conduct the necessary investigation of any administrative act as it is believed that the complainant has an adequate remedy in another judicial or quasi-judicial body and the complaint pertains to a matter outside the jurisdiction of the Office of the Ombudsman…"

The resolution added: "In charging Mayor Lim and Vice-Mayor Domagoso, Cabigao is actually actually questioning the validity or constitutionality of Ordinance No. 8187 which the two had signed. And the Ombudsman’s office is not the office to rule on said issue.Furthermore, the complaint is under the power of the Supreme Court as it pertains to the constitutionality of the ordinance signed."