Govt unable to decide on Poro Point tiff

A STATE-LED agency tasked to manage the facilities of former US military bases in the Philippines announced Monday its inability to nullify a contract for a sea port in the North.
       “We have no powers to nullify contracts,” Narciso Abaya, president and chief executive officer of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA), said in a statement.
       Abaya was reacting to reports that some sectors are allegedly apprehensive about the reported plan by the government to declare null and void the contract of Bulk Handlers Inc. to operate Poro Point. He said such apprehensions are unfounded and without legal basis.
       The BCDA chief said the concerns raised by a supposed citizens’ group in Northern Luzon was based on a resolution passed by Poro Point Management Corp., a subsidiary of BCDA, declaring the contract between the state-led agency and BHI void.
       In the same statement, Abaya said that the BCDA’s main concern now is to continue its various conversion and development projects in former US military bases to uplift the lives of Filipinos.