What about QC cop retirees?

The City of Manila grants to its retired policemen financial assistance. In Makati City, there is a pending measure before its city council, which has a good chance of being approved very soon, granting similar assistance to its police-retirees.

In Quezon City, City Ordinance SP -154 provides for a one-time graduated financial assistance of 40, 60, 80, and 100 thousand pesos, depending on the number of years an individual police-retiree served the city.

In April 1996, the city government, through former Mayor Ismael Mathay Jr. released P10 million and initially paid the more than 200 retirees in May of the same year. From that time on up to this writing, which is already 12 long years City Ordinance SP-154, as amended, which still exists and in effect, has not been funded appropriately or implemented respectably.

So many flimsy excuses have been made by the office of Mayor Belmonte which have no legal basis at all, the consternation of the otherwise legitimate retiree-recipients of the Ordinance.

The QC police-retirees are still hoping, despite the lapse of more than a decade now, to be paid what is legitimately due them. Now they ask Mayor Belmonte when this hope will become a reality. before he bows out of office. - ORLANDO C. AGUILAR, QC Police-Retiree, #4 Road B, Project 7, QC