30/10/2025
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN YLOCOSLOVAKIA ||
"SIGAW NG PAGBABAGO, GISING ILOCANO" - SISA
In January 2001, a few days after People Power II, the Save Ilocos Sur Alliance (SISA) was formed. SISA was initially composed of 40 individuals from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Ilocos Sur chapter, some Catholic church-based groups, former members of the Social Action Center (SAC), a church-based organization, the leftist Alab Katipunan, and the local media.
Long before Chavit made his expose of Estrada's supposed involvement in jueteng payola and to***co payoffs, organized sectors of local society had already raised concern over the long-drawn problems of graft and corruption in local government, jueteng, and political dynasty in Ilocos Sur.
Since 1994, the Roman Catholic Church under Archbishop Orlando Quevedo and some church lay individuals have been issuing statements against the untrammeled jueteng operations and the persistence of political dynasties in the province. At the height of the Erap Resign protest in Ilocos Sur, Alab Katipunan towed a "resign all" line: a call for both Estrada and Chavit to resign, a position distinct from the other anti-Estrada groups in Ilocos Sur. The impeachment process in Manila that led to People Power II dulled these efforts.
SISA has been demanding an inquiry into Chavit's Commission on Audit (COA) records since August 26, 2000, less than two weeks before Chavit's expose on Estrada. The COA report stated that the provincial government under Chavit paid the contractor NS International for civil works on the Tomato Paste Processing Plant in excess of COA's evaluated cost. The excess was estimated to be more than P41 million.
The plant was registered as a private corporation, which makes one wonder why it was then funded by the provincial government. SISA members also want the prosecution of Chavit and those who participated in the alleged re-channeling of the to***co excise tax funds out of the province.
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