GSO checks whereabouts of equipment

The Cebu City General Services Office is still looking for the aerial ladder truck and water tanker donated by Japan to the city government 16 years ago after Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella inquired on the status of the equipment.

GSO chief Ronaldo Malacora said that they have found documents relative to the donation but he has yet to check whether these are the same equipment in the warehouse at the South Road Properties.

Malacora said he already instructed the officer-in-charge of the GSO warehouse to verify whether the serial numbers on the record match with that of the equipment found in the warehouse.

Labella inquired of the whereabouts of these donated equipment following reports that it was only recently that the city government acquired, for the first time, an 18-storey aerial ladder truck.

In his letter to Malacora, the vice mayor said that there was an aerial ladder and water tanker donated by Iki, Japan in 2000. Malacora said he inquired from the Bureau of Fire Protection whether these were in their custody but the property custodian of the fire department could not recalled having these equipment.

“Ang BFP pud akong gipangutana verbally niigon man nga wala sad sila kahinumdum nga naa sila ana nga unit basig nakalimot sad sila ba, unya natangtang na ang record kay taud taud naman pud na nga naabot,” Malacora said.

Meanwhile, Malacora has asked all those who were issued with cityowned vehicles and equipment to take care of them.

He said that those who were found to have taken for granted the vehicles issued to them were asked to explain.

“Pangayoan og tubag, para makat-on sila unsaon pag amping sa butang kay mao mana atong responsibilidad,” Malacora said.