The city council urges the Local Water Utilities Administration to heed the legal opinion of the Department of Justice about its contentious takeover of the Cagayan de Oro Water District
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Ten Cagayan de Oro councilors voted in favor of Resolution No. 2024-781, while five objected on Monday afternoon, July 8. The DOJ opinion triggered louder protests in front of the COWD office, with demonstrators calling LWUA’s intervention “illegal.” Lawyer Proculo Sarmen, the leader of the consumers’ watchdog Community Alliance for Water Supply Action , said the DOJ’s views did not “comprehensively address all circumstances pertaining to the regulatory and supervisory powers of LWUA under PD 198.”
Meanwhile, Councilor Achas alleged that the Bantay Tubig Movement , one of the groups protesting outside COWD, had political motivations.
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