Overpriced DepEd noodles!

[Zeus]

Roxas orders COA audit on undelivered DepEd noodles

04/30/2009 | 03:06 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Senator Manuel Roxas II on Thursday requested the Commission on Audit to check on all undelivered instant noodles for the government’s Food-for-School program.

In the letter to COA Chairman Reynaldo Villar, Roxas asked the agency and all its regional and provincial offices to conduct an audit of all the instant noodles that are still in Department of Education (DepEd) offices.

“I would like to request COA and all its regional offices to furnish us with a comprehensive audit report on all the noodles that are in the stock/inventory of DepEd, wherever stored, covering the period of January 2008 up to the present date," the letter stated.

Roxas said the Senate committee on education, which he chairs, has received reports that expired noodles from the 2007-2008 school-feeding program have not been delivered by several regional and provincial DepEd offices.

With this, Roxas warned DepEd regional and provincial officials against destroying undelivered, overpriced instant noodles before the COA could complete its inventory.

He said the destruction of the undelivered noodle packages would be the same as destroying evidence as the Senate education committee continues its investigation into allegation of irregularities in the DepEd’s Food-for-School Program.

The Senate panel on Wednesday opened its inquiry into the alleged scam in noodles procurement, taking off from allegations that DepEd officials have been manipulating their bidding requirements for the supplier, favoring a private contractor.

Businessman Prudencio Quido Jr. said the contracts awarded by DepEd to Jeverps Manufacturing Corporation since 2007 were “highly anomalous, fraudulent and worse, most disadvantageous to the interest of the government and supposed beneficiaries — the public school elementary children."

He said DepEd awarded to Jeverps a P284.13-million contract for “fortified noodles with fresh eggs" in 2007 and P427.21 million for “fortified noodles with fresh eggs and malunggay" in 2009.

In the hearing last Wednesday, DepEd officials denied favoring Jeverps, saying they awarded the contract to the company because it was the only one that participated in the bidding.

The noodles supplied by Jeverps were imported from Vietnam.

But Quido said this was because no local manufacturer could comply with the DepEd requirement that a pack of noodles should contain 100 grams, and that what was regularly supplied to the markets has 55 grams only.

Also, he said that the price per noodle pack for the first project undertaken in 2007 was highly unconscionable at P18 when the price in the market was only P4.50.

Moreover, he said the labeling of the noodle packs “Fortified Instant Noodles with Fresh Eggs" was deceitful as the content was not enriched with fresh eggs.

He said Vietnam’s food-testing agency had revealed that “the DepEd’s fortified instant noodle with fresh egg is made of flour and does not contain any fresh egg but mere egg powder." - Amita O. Legaspi, GMANews.TV

P18. ang binigay o declared sa DepEd, market price P4.50. lang

[badsekktor]

as usual! tongpats!

[scharnhorst]

not surprised.

just worried that this is food... for CHILDREN.

bakit sa vietnam pa kukuha e ang dami daming local manufacturers ng noodles dito.

[chua_riwap]

Sabi ng DepEd, mahal daw kasi yung isang sangkap ng noodles, which is Malunggay. Abot daw ng P60-P100 per 100 grams.

Sabi ni Mrs. Korina........"Ano yan, cocaine, shabu?"

[Zeus]

Sabi ng DepEd, mahal daw kasi yung isang sangkap ng noodles, which is Malunggay. Abot daw ng P60-P100 per 100 grams.

Sabi ni Mrs. Korina........"Ano yan, cocaine, shabu?"

oo nga napanood ko yan sa news kagabi

[falken]

Dapat talaga sa mga lintik na ito bitayin!

[rion]

why not use a common noodle and a real egg.

noodle: 6.00
real egg: 5.00
----------------
= 11.00 pesos.

Tapos ang problema. nakakatulong pa sa itlog industrya...

[Burai]

pwede naman yatang hindi suportahan yan by not buying any of their products?

kasi kung ganun pricing eh parang bumili na rin ako ng vietnamese na noodles, yung Oh! ricey yata name nun. gawa sa kho ba yun? err.. check niyo na lang sa mga shopwise or savemore stores :D

[XTO]

wala talagang sinabi mga matsing :hang:

burai, hindi for sale yun. para sa mga public school pupils for free pero yun nga inuna na nila yung para sa kanila toink!

[xoom]

bwakanenang gobyerno talaga to....waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!:diablo:

[rst619]

Ganyan talaga style ng bidding sa gobyerno. Tinaas nila specs (100g) dahil alam nila wala naman local na noodles na ganyan ang serving size. and presto! isa lang ang qualified ( and ito ang preferred bidder nila ). Rigged bidding!

[scharnhorst]

Ganyan talaga style ng bidding sa gobyerno. Tinaas nila specs (100g) dahil alam nila wala naman local na noodles na ganyan ang serving size. and presto! isa lang ang qualified ( and ito ang preferred bidder nila ). Rigged bidding!

e kung dalawang P 4.50 na 55 gram noodles nalang? mas mura pa. kahit may itlog pa hindi aabot ng 18 pesos!

nakaka inis talaga!

[chua_riwap]

Kakapal talaga ng mukha ng mga tao natin sa gobyerno! Lahat na lang pinagkakitaan eh.

Pati ba naman noodles.........

Kunin na sana kayo ni Lord!

[testament11]

pinakita eto at una lumabas ang issue na eto sa umagang kay ganda, sa punto por punto.

eto ang sabi, ang issue is kung may real egg ang overpriced noodles na eto. eto ngayon... may 1 individual na pinatest ang noodles na eto sa vietnam. bakit doon? hindi daw nagtetest ang BFAD hanggang walang abnormalities sa pagkain. so tinest sa vietnam. ang resulta, WALANG ITLOG!

nakalagay pa naman dun na 100% REAL EGG, pero wala naman pala! anak ng... pati DepEd kasama sa interview, walang maibigay na tamang sagot!

imagine this, distributed ang noodles sa public schools, binebenta at pinopromote eto. 18 PETOT ang 1 pack, kapalit ang nutrition na makukuha. so dun palang, halata na kurakot eto. isang harapang kurakot!

[ruelsdcz]

same old story like fertilizer scam. pacheck nila mga bahay ng mga taga DOH may nakadisplay sa mga cabinet nila.

[chua_riwap]

Marami pa palang noodles na undelivered at naka-stock lang sa DepEd. Noodles for the 2007-2008 "school-feeding program" have not been delivered by most of the regional and provincial DepEd offices. Nag-expire na!

Patay kang DepEd ka!

[uls]

the whole point of coming up with "projects" is simply to steal money

the govt people do not care about the projects naman e

paraan lang yan para kumita

kaya magaling sila mag isip ng "projects"

the govt people don't care if a bridge doesnt get finished

or if a stadium never gets used and is left to deteriorate

or if high yield rice isnt suitable for our local farmers' farming methods

or if puro wrong spelling and wrong info ang laman ng textbooks

or if noodles for school kids are really crap

All they care about is the money

after they get their share, the projects are forgotten

then they think of new projects naman

[XTO]

ito palagi nilang sagot kapag nadadapa sila: :evillaughlilipas rin yan don't worry" let's look for some interesting issues na kakagatin ni juan dela cruz na walang magawa, sigurado limot sa vetsin yan este limot yan

[Burai]

natatawa ako dito, halos nababasa ko was all about the noodles and the egg :bwahaha:

*XTO
ah i see.. pero yun nga po, 18 is almost the same price na rin for the oh ricey na nakain ko dati which is i think healthier pa??? without the egg

[XTO]

korek burai, before 1 kilo of NFA rice talaga ang ibinibigay nila sa (elementary only) public. ang directive doon is 1 kilo a day, yung ibang school sumusunod pero yung public dito sa may amin, inintrerbyu ko mga bata, tuwing biyernes lang daw sila binibigyan

sabi mga loko talaga titser nyo ah - pagdasal n'yo ma impatso