(CNN Philippines) — The College of Nursing of the University of Makati has been highly disadvantageous to residents of the country’s premier financial center, with only Vice President Jejomar Binay benefiting from it through a dummy, a nephew of former Sen. Joker Arroyo.
Lawyer Renato Bondal, a former barangay chairman in Makati, made this accusation on Tuesday (May 5), during the 19th hearing conducted by the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee on alleged anomalies in the city.
Bondal is a complainant — along with another lawyer, Nicolas Enciso — in plunder and graft cases filed at the Office of the Ombudman last July 22 against Vice President Jejomar Binay, a former mayor of the city; his son, the incumbent Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay; and 21 other former and incumbent councilors.
On Tuesday, Bondal said that the Makati City government entered into a joint venture agreement in 2003 with Systems Technology Institute (STI) to set up the College of Nursing — without public bidding.
He said the STI, though a well-known computer school, had show a poor performance in nursing education.
He also questioned the high tuition that the college collects from its students, as compared to other public universities.
But despite this, Bondal says the college continues to perform poorly in the nursing board exams — with a passing rate of only 67.21%.
Only Vice President Binay, he said, benefited from this joint venture.
He explained that, under the joint venture, the STI would receive 40% of the stocks, the University of Makati 40%, and a certain Jack Arroyo 20%.
Arroyo is one of the incorporators of the Philippines Health Educators Inc., which manages the College of Nursing, as stated in the joint venture agreement.
Bondal said he believes that Arroyo, a nephew of former Sen. Joker Arroyo, is a dummy of Vice President Binay.
This means, he said, of the P100 million cash dividends that the college announced from 2006 to 2013, P40 million went to the University of Makati, another P40 million went to STI, and P20 million went to Arroyo — then to the vice president.
Asked to further elaborate his claim, Bondal admitted that he had no evidence to prove his allegation.
