Bacolod City Water District director Greg Gasataya brushed off reports that he is pushing for the privatization of the water district.
According to Gasataya, the news and text messages being circulated around the city is very much unfounded and a clear propaganda to destroy his name. Gasataya said the issue linking him to the privatization of BACIWA came out a day after he was officially named by the Nationalist People’s Coalition-Grupo Progreso as their candidate for the vice mayoralty post. The former three-term city councilor explained that persons or groups behind the black propaganda should study their strategy as Bacolodnons are not dumb to understand that it would take a Congressional act to push for the privatization of water services utilities like BACIWA. Gasataya stressed that after graduating from the Sangguniang Panlungsod and being appointed as director of BACIWA, he silently worked to improve the level of services of the water district. Most notable in his stint with the water district is their corroborated effort to negotiate with the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) to reduce the interest of the more than P200 million loan availed by the water district, Gasataya revealed. Meanwhile, Gasataya assured the Bacolodnons that he is very much ready to serve as their next vice mayor, as he insisted that he is very much qualified to the said position. The BACIWA official explained that presiding over the session of the city council is nothing new to him, as he cited several instances during which he served as acting vice mayor. Gasataya stressed if given the mandate, he will pursue a consultative style of leadership to make sure that every stand and point of views of the members of the city council would be respected and heard. He added he sees no problem with the possible entry of incumbent councilors Atty. Archie Baribar, Atty. Sonya Verdeflor, El Cid Familiaran and Elmer Sy to Grupo Progreso as he has worked with them in the past./WDJ
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