The latest move from the corrupt bowels of the RP Energy dirty tricks department was a fake social acceptance meeting staged last Friday and Freeport stakeholders were definitely NOT invited.
It was Subic Bays best kept secret to business leaders,
residents and stakeholders while RP Energy put on a road show reminiscent of
Presidential election time.
The night before this façade, organizers spilled the beans
to The Subic Bulletin that RP Energy had already “organized” 5,000 attendees to
be brought in by busses from the province at a bounty of 300-500 Pesos per
person! Added to this free food, popcorn machines and free drinks and the
unethically acquired crowd would have cheered at anything.
When SBMA held REAL social acceptance meetings last year
with residents and stakeholders present RP Energy didn’t even show up. In an
attempt to convince government leaders there is social acceptance RP Energy perverted
the social acceptance process by buying a crowd.
Paid visitors had to sign in, but uninvited residents who
heard about the secret meeting were told that they CANNOT sign in. We are
assuming that these purchased signatures are what RP Energy will use to falsify
public acceptance.
Some of the paid crowed were given a little more money to
read out questions to prompt the canned answers RP Energy had prepared, but
laughter fell upon the auditorium when some “interested persons” had trouble
reading their RP Energy provided questions. Clearly many of this crowd did not
even understand the questions, did not understand or care about the issues but
simply cared about their payment.
Of course for this dubious occasion SBMA and local
government leaders were invited to witness the overwhelming acceptance of the
project, but did they see through this disgraceful misrepresentation? Why did
SBMA not pass on an invitation this time?
The deception and dishonesty of RP Energy has now reached a
new level, President Aquino is riding on a platform of transparency and honesty
in government yet here is the biggest political deception in the country, so
why is the President failing to stop it. Why is the President allowing the DENR
officials to join the RP Energy “roadshow” like little RP Energy puppets
without questioning their motives (or bank accounts).
President Aquino, Do you support deception and fraud
or do you support the people who elected you?
Choose your side Mr President.
