RELOCATION CENTER Edison Rivera (left) and Domino Arcilla (right) testify before the Senate blue ribbon sub-committee on Thursday on the allegedly failed Makati Home Ville project of the Makati city government in Laguna. The “unfinished” project was envisioned as a relocation center for the city’s informal settlers. PHOTO BY RUY L. MARTINEZ
THE Makati city government under then-Mayor Jejomar Binay converted a multimillion-peso housing project, intended for the city’s poor residents, into an overpriced hotel that provides free accommodation to the now-Vice President’s political allies, a former city official claimed on Thursday.