Blame the city council on gas slip “fuel scam” claims exdad Cabato

ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) –Former City Councilor Jaime Cabato said that owner of the gasoline station that is now claiming some P1.214 million in unpaid fuel  should zero his claim on the city council or the city government because the arrangement on the gas slip use is between that company and the city government, and in this case, the city council.

Cabato is one of those city councilors including vice mayors who received letters from the gasoline station that asked them to pay for what they say are unpaid diesel oil consumed and procured by way of gas slips issued by the city council.

Cabato wrote letters to media outfits explaining his side on what he said is the “SP fuel scam.”

He also said these letters from the gasoline station have caused possible wasteful damages imputed on his and those other officials “in the eyes of the public”

He said that “as a working member then of the City Council, I did regularly receive gas slips from the SP.

“In good faith I did use up all that were issued me, aware that the SP had yearly allocations for all SP members.

The releasing personnel would not be able to issue a single gas slip without the signature of the administration head.

“Thereby, whatever I had consumed were on the level and to be settled in full by the SP admin. If indeed there  are unsettled accounts in my name, very indisputably, the fault is not mine. Sorry I have to say this, the blame lies solely in the SP administration.”

In a letter to the Canelar Refueling station he said the demand letter he recieved has “unnecessarily opened me to baseless criticisms and ridicule in the media as well as before the eyes of the people.”

“You very well know, I do not have a personal/private charge account with your station. It is the City Council (SP) that does.

“Simply said, whenever I withdrew gas from your company when I was in office, all were covered by gas slips and subject slips were all issued by the City Council, your client.”

In conclusion he said that “I am under no obligation to settle any account in your outfit born out of the gas your office served me with. It is your client that does, and it is the City Council.” (PR) (093014)