CALABANGA, Camarines Sur -– Dr. Domingo Yu, coordinator of the Casureco II Consumers Movement, expressed elation over the assurance given by the National Electrification Administration (NEA) Administrative Committee (Adcom) that it would soon hear the case the group has lodged against the acting general manager and members of the Board of Directors of Camarines Sur II Electric Cooperative for alleged mismanagement of coop funds and other abuses.

        The assurance came from Pablo M. Pan III, NEA Adminstrator for Electric Distribution Utilities Services who also acknowledged the receipt of P1,000 from Yu’s group as filing/docket fee for the administrative case against Casureco II officials.

        Pan informed Yu that they were still in Davao hearing another Adcom case which explained why they have to hear the Casureco II case “as soon as possible” after the Davao hearing would have been terminated.

        The Casureco II Consumers Movement has filed at least 18 charges against some high officials of Casureco II, including its Board members, as contained in the petition complaint prepared by concerned coop employees and signed by hundreds of power consumers in the power coop area that includes Naga City.

        One of such charges was the alleged appropriation of P300,000 by the Board that reportedly were released to each Board member and some Casureco II managers through the Bicol Electric Cooperatives Association to be used to purportedly finance the political campaign of the Association of Philippine Electric Cooperative (APEC) in the May 14 Party-list elections.

        The amount has since been disallowed by NEA because of a standing policy against appropriating coop funds for political purposes.

        Yu said that the latest development on NEA’s desire to pursue hearing the case would dispel consumers’ fear of inaction on the part of NEA.

        Pan’s reassuring response would at least warn unscrupulous Casureco II officials from committing more abuses and misconduct, Yu said.