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Contractor declines to give address

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Defensor miffed by Kuan Yu's incompetence Should Gov. Arthur D. Defensor, Sr. make good his threat of hailing Kuan Yu Global Technologies to court, where will he serve the copy of his complaint to the latter? And members of Task Force Oil Spill are baffled : Kuan Yu refuses to give its  office address "for security reasons". Task force members L - R: Dr. Sadaba, Dr. Banias and Cmmdr Ybanez  Defensor formed the task force to monitor Kuan Yu's performance of cleaning up the oil spill that began at Brgy. Botongon, Estancia November 8, 2014, when super typhoon Yolanda lashed northern Iloilo. Kuan Yu's Valentin Menpin (2nd from right) tells task force convenors that their company address is confidential "for security reasons" The spill spread to neighboring towns and down to Ajuy, 40 kilometers south of Estancia. Defensor's counsel, the Iloilo Provincial Legal Office will only just be looking for a needle in a haystack seeking its

Is the clean up of oil spill complete

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(Task Force Oil Spill (TFOS) Meeting Board Room, Office of the Governor Capitol, Iloilo City)   Kuan Yu Global Technologies, Inc., the contractor, reports it is already complete. Defensor However, the rest of the Task Force Oil Spill insist it's far from over. Kuan Yu representative Valentino G. Menpin, also a task force member, reported that its contract is almost done since the oil spill, the disaster that came when supertyphoon Yolanda slammed the state-owned Napocoro's Power Barge 103 from its berth to the rocky shore of Brgy. Botongon, Estancia town. Defensor That report though was challenged by Dr. Resurrection Sadaba, the oceanologist from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) who came up with a power-point presentation on the contractor's deficiencies. Kuan Yu's Menpin The spill has spread to Batad and San Dionisio towns. As result mangroves there are "dead or dying". Some are still a

Defensor warns Kuan Yu, Rallyists assail national government

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ILOILO Provincial Capitol Iloilo City 04 February 2014 Defensor giving Kuan Yu respresentative an earful. While rallyists were giving the P-Noy administration an earful for its ineptness in responding to supertyphoon Yolanda victims this morning, Iloilo Gov. Arthur D. Defensor hissed an earful as well on Kuan Yu Global Technologies, Inc. likewise for ineptness in cleaning up the shores of northern Iloilo from the oil spill. Defensor (center) to Kuan Yu: I reserve the right of Iloilo Province to file charges against Kuan Yu. Beside him is Coast Guard Commodore Ybanez. "We condemn the irresponsibility and inefficiencyt of the national government and the government of Pres. P-Noy Aquino," boomed Edgar Salarda, head of the Piston-Panay, a militant association of jeepney drivers and operators. Some 50 persons held a rally at the gate of the Iloilo Provincial Capitol this morning, coinciding with the meeting of the Task Force Oil Spill that Defe