BAGUIO CITY: Malacañang tossed to the Department of Energy (DoE) a plea of member consumer owners (MCOs) of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) to remove and replace the board of the National Electrification Administration (NEA).

Lawyer Kim Raisa Uy, assistant secretary of the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES), forwarded to the DoE on Oct. 22, 2021 an MCO resolution that called on President Rodrigo Duterte to sack the NEA board of administrators for allegedly breaking the rules governing the selection of the leadership of the cooperative to ensure that Ana Maria Paz Rafael would become the general manager (GM) of Beneco.

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