CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro: The river dredging activities and road rehabilitation projects in the province will be discontinued because the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) disapproved the budgetary allocation for gasoline and lubricants in the supplemental budget worth P4.3 million.
"Sa hindi namin maintindihang kadahilanan ay tinanggal sa listahan at hindi isinama ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan ang item ng fuel, oil at lubricants na eklusibong gagamitin sana sa mga heavy equipment upang tuloy-tuloy na makapag-operate na mapalalim ang mga ilog na nagiging dahilan ng malawakang pagbaha at pag-aayos ng mga sirang kalsada (For reasons unknown to us, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan did not include the items for fuel, oil and lubricants that would exclusively be used for the dredging of rivers to lessen the flooding and for the repair of damaged roads)," Gov. Humerlito Dolor, in a social media post, said.
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