OSG to contest P7.3-B award to Manila Water

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:04:03 +0000

The Office of the Solicitor General has assured that it will contest the recent award made by the Permanent Court of Arbitration which ordered the government to pay concessionaire Manila Water P7.39 billion in losses.

“We will not let this prevail without a fight,” said Solicitor General Jose Calida in a statement.

Calida said that the OSG will “exhaust all available legal remedies against the award.”

“While the OSG respects its obligation to keep confidential the arbitration proceedings, the OSG cannot just simply stand by and watch Manila Water spin the circumstances and paint itself as an exemplary, outstanding company,” he stated.

“This arbitration proceeding tells a very different story, one which will naturally reveal itself through the next actions we will undertake. Our next steps will show that the arbitral award was not, to quote Manila Water, due to a ‘procedural lapse’ by government. It is a company’s refusal to become the subject of a legitimate regulation,” he explained.

The Solicitor General added Manila Water also shouldn’t boast about its billions of pesos worth of infrastructure.

Calida argued, “If indeed billion
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