AFTER proposing a peace covenant with Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto for a "friendly political campaign" to ensure clean and honest elections in the city next year, mayoral bet Sara Discaya now wants to embark on a "charity war" which she said will benefit Pasig residents.
Sara Discaya, a mayoral aspirant in the city, said that they offered a peace covenant to ensure fairness during the campaign.
"Our peace offer is an offshoot of the statements of the mayor that is damaging to our family and business. We do not want to reciprocate with damaging statements," Discaya said.
"It is saddening that his response is far from what is expected from a public servant whose responsibilities include keeping the peace in his area of jurisdiction," she added.
Discaya lamented that Sotto was not amenable to the "peaceful and respectful" campaign call.
"Nevertheless, our family will aspire to keep the electoral campaign peaceful, vibrant and beneficial to Pasigueños. That is if the good mayor will accept our challenge of a charity war, if he is not ready yet for our offer of a peace covenant," Discaya said.
She added that Pasig residents will benefit from the charity war wherein her family, through their construction firm, offered to do a detailed engineering design for a City Hall complex. Discaya said that under an agreement signed by Sotto, the city government will pay P855 million for the engineering design for a new city hall compound.
"As an act of charity, we will donate P855 million to the city for the construction of a hospital complete with all the needed facilities and medicines. We only ask that Mayor Sotto defer by four to five years the procurement of P1.3 billion Information Technology Systems that will be built for the new city hall since the project will only be used once the city hall complex is finished," Discaya said.
If the mayor will agree to their offer, Discaya said their company will deploy their design engineers and technical staff to start doing the design for the city hall complex..
She said the city can use the P1.3 billion to fund projects that would benefit the poor.