CEBU City’s two congressmen yesterday gave copies of their 2012
Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) upon request of Cebu
Daily News.
Cebu City Rep. Tomas
Osmeña said he thinks all SALNS should be posted in the Internet for the
world to see.
With a declared net worth
of P5.1 million and no real property , Osmeña said he isn’t ashamed to admit
he’s the "poorest" of Cebu’s congressmen.
First-time legislator
Rep. Rachel “Cutie” del Mar recorded a net worth of P30,011,200 in her SALN,
most of it in three landholdings in Cebu City and a Makati condominium.
“As a public official, I
have to adhere to the principle that public office is a public trust, she
said.
A call for full
transparency was underscored by Tuesday’s ouster of Chief Justice Renato
Corona over his failure to declare his full cash assets in the SALN.
CDN asked nine Cebu
members of the House of Representatives to disclose their current SALNs which
are filed with the Secretary General ‘s office in Quezon City.
Rep. Red Durano of the
5th district and Rep. Luigi Quisumbing were the first to e-mail or fax copies
to the CDN newsroom.
Under oath, they
certified that their personal wealth was P15.8 million for Quisumbing and
P13.6 million for Durano.
Two other solons, 3rd
district Rep. Pablo John Garcia and 4th district Rep. Benhur Salimbangon
asked for more time, saying there was a period of revision to “correct”
entries reviewed by the House.
Osmeña yesterday said
"the SALN should be made available to the public. They (the House
leadership) should put it on the Internet,” he said. This would save him the
bother of photocopying it whenever someone requests for it, he said.
House Speaker Feliciano
Belmonte on Tuesday said he would discuss with congressmen how to go about
revealing the documents so that “everyone does it”.
Osmeña and del Mar both
declared the same income of P1 million per annum.
In the document dated
April 20, 2012, Osmeña’s assets have no real properties listed.
(With the death last Nov.
6, 2011 of his mother Lourdes dela Rama , however, he is expected to inherit
a share of sizeable landholdings in Negros Occidental and Cebu.)
As his personal and other
properties, the former Cebu City mayor said most of his wealth was in cash of
P3.9 million and “car and accessories” at P1.89 million, along with jewelry
worth P175,000, stock investments worth P660,000 and appliances and furniture
worth P320,000.
His residence with wife
Councilor Margarita Osmena is in 168 Don Gervasio Quijada Streeet in
Guadalupe, Cebu City.
The congressman said “six
units” of firearms were donated to him in 2011.
Total assets of P6.9
million were offset by two loans, a personal loan of P1.5 million from his
sister Maria Victtorio Osmeña Stuart and a Metrobank car loan for P380,000.
For business interests,
Osmena said he and his wife were stockholders in two firms in Cebu City -
Happy Stars Promotion & Consultant INc. and Southern Gems Fashion Inc. in
June 2006.
His relatives in government
are his wife Margot and elder brother Sen. Serge Osmena III.
Meanwhile, Cutie del Mar,
e-mailed a copy of her 2012 SALN to CDN.
It showed net assets of a
little over P30 million with no liabilties.
Her income of P1,000,121
a year was the same figure as Osmeña’s.
The single legislator
resides in Canyon Road, Beverly Hills in Cebu City and declared four real
properties with a total worth of P21.8 million, which was the bulk of her
personal wealth.
There were three lots in
Cebu City (Busay, Lahug and Ayala Heights), and a P16 million condominium in
Makati .
The properties were
bought in 1991, 1995, 2001 and the latest, the condominium in 2002.
She owns P2 million in
shares of stock acquired in 1989 and P6.2 million in cash and jewelry in
1987.
Although everyone knows
her as the daughter of former congressman Raul del Mar, Cutie has no family
members or relatives in government, according to the SALN. /Edison A Delos Angeles and Ador Vincent Mayol
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