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CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: The Clark Investors and Locators
Association (CILA) claimed that it has “neither joined any group
or issued any statement calling for the ouster of Clark Development
Corp. [CDC] President Liberato Laus.”
CILA Chairwoman Teresa Bognot took exceptions
to a banner story in a local daily newspaper that the organization
had called for the ouster of Laus as president/CEO of CDC.
The said local tabloid published a story whose
headline read, “Clark locators want Laus out.” The headline was
followed up with “CDC not giving CILA ‘respect [it]
deserves.’”
The articles quoted CILA President Jeannie del
Rosario-Ng in a February 11, 2008 letter as saying that CILA
“officially deplored what it called CDC’s ‘lack of respect for
both foreign and local investors.’”
However, Bognot said CILA and Laus have
threshed out prevailing “differences” between the organization
and the CDC.
“We have our differences with the CDC but
[these] have been discussed already during the meeting,” Bognot
said referring to the consultative meeting held at the Red Crab
Restaurant inside the Clark Freeport on February 19.
She clarified that while the article did not
directly say that CILA called for Laus’s ouster this much was
implied and mislead readers.
CILA accounts for at least 90 percent of
employment, investment, and production inside the Clark Freeport
with its more than 100 members.
--Mark Louie P. Roxas
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