Whatta rip-off: RIPA

Fraud takes P300M+

A sucker is born every minute. And in this fact feeds scammers, who endlessly finds ways to suck the blood of the gullible, by offering a shortcut to riches.

Take the ripa-ripa for example.

Ripa-ripa is a traditional neighborhood way of helping each other to get cash, own goods or appliances which are otherwise too expensive to get.

Led by a leader, a group is informally formed, usually made up of neighbors, people who know and trust each other. They then agree on the target for the month.

Say, the group agrees on a brand new refrigerator. Since the refrigerator costs about, say P12,000, they agree to put in P1,000 a month.

If there are 12 members, and they agree to pitch in P1000 per month, they meet on a specific date bringing with them P1000 for the fund pool. During the meeting, they draw who gets the P12,000.

By the next month, they gather again putting in P1000, and draw, this time excluding the member who has already gotten his share.

Also adopted as a system to generate savings, some ripa-ripa members agree to lend the money they raised, to earn interest, After a year, usually a month before the fiesta, the member will get his investment, plus the interest in the lending business.

Now, enters the sweet talking scammer.

Seeing that this ripa-ripa could be a launching pad for investments, he comes in and asks the group: what if your P1,000 turns to P1,500 in a month?

Offering a non risk or low risk handsome deal of high return of investment, those eager to get rich quick take the hook.

True enough, by the next month, the investment returns come. Clean P1500.

How did the scammer get the money to payout for the extra P500? He gets this by staring a new group, say P1500 turns to P3000 in a week. From the members who paid P1500, he gets the P500 and this forms the payout for the ripa-ripa group. He keeps the P1,000 of the second group.

Then he starts a third group: P3,000 turns to P4,500. As soon as the members remit their payments, he gest the P3,000 to payout for the second group and keeps the P1,500 for himself.

By this time, those members of the two groups spread the word: this is legitimate as they have received the payments and all are good.

Again, he starts another group, possibly those in the previous ripa groups who have received their handsome payouts. P5,000 turns to P8,000. The payments, of course go to pay for those investing to get P4,500.

This goes on and on and on every group, the scammer gets at least P500 to P3,000, depending on the number of members.

How does this go?

The scammer sweet-talks to the investors a handsome return of investment, in Bohol, it is every two weeks, that their money is invested in the scheme.

As soon as the initial investors receive their money and a good return, news start to spread and widespread recruitment starts.

This time, others who may be interested but without capital, put up their own group, enters the scammers game and becomes a “reseller.”

Usually, resellers themselves invest, seeing that they too can adopt a smaller scheme by hitching on the big group.

As investments are successful in the first few weeks, this convinces more and more investors to put up their money in the system.

And then, as soon as the scammer has already accumulated a huge amount, he disappears, leaving his resellers and the investors with the empty bag.

This scheme, like the ones in the multi-level marketing, are variations of the Ponzi Scheme that has been when suckers are still with us.

And, if one remembers another similar fraud in Kappa in 2016 which reaped millions from Boholanos, this ripa-ripa is nothing new. In time for the elections as one pointed out.

And like they said, there wo’nt be any fools if there are no people willing to be fooled. Or something like that.

With this, and in advise to his constituents who allegedly lost P40million to the ripa scam, here is Lila Mayor Atty Arturo Jed Piollo has to say:

1. There is no such thinga s easy money. If it is an offer for an easy money, chances are, it is illegal and is a scam.

2. Keep yourself grounded. Be content with what you have, do not aim for the heavens, if by doing so, you trample on somebody else’s rights. Content yourself with those money can not buy like love of family, peaceful life, good health and good relationships.

3. God gave us brains, so we have to use it. Check if you put in on a trusted investment.

4. Check if it is legal, with the appropriate licenses and permits from regulatory bodies. Even online businesses need to have permits so your rights can be protected. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

Asia fusion at Manays Farm

In the vast agricultural flatlands of San Miguel, a stone throw away from the Bayongan Dam, is a farm developed by a retired employee and farming technology trainer of the Department of Agriculture.

Nunila Pinat, also better known in Bohol as Manay Bebot is a widow, her husband Jack worked at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. Both of them joined the same leaning to agriculture especially when the government devolved the DA to the LGUS.

Manay’s family, owned a small farm lot in Bayongan in San Miguel, and when she decided to finally settle after retirement, Bayongan was her first and most logical choice.

Equipped with the leading technologies in sustainable agriculture and as an expert community organizer, Manay, who also won as a mayor in the town, bought a small piece of land which she envisioned to put up a demonstration farm to showcase to farming technologies they can adopt and emulate.

Thus came Manay’s Farm, now becoming an entire family venture culminating in the homing of a daughter who worked for the human resource division of an international company in Cambodia, and the return of a chef son who worked in an international hotel also in Cambodia.

The farm, now becoming a showcase of an integrated diversified organic farming of the DA’s Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), also feature home agri technologies, cut flower, organic live stock growing, herbs and vegetables, rice and aquaculture, health and wellness products as well as sustainable resources use through ecological solid waste management.

To serve on the guests and farmers who visit the farm, Manay’s Farm has put up its own unique brand of food, mostly a fusion of the Boholano-Filipino and Asean tastes.

Manay’s Farm is also revolutionizing the agri market when they started consolidating local produce for their kitchen and for their guests who but fresh organically grown produce.

Becoming a strict farm to table venue, Manay’s Farm has also put up an open air hall for dining guests in the pandemic.

GINGERED ADOBO (Linuy-ahang Adobo)

A main dish which they started to serve in 2019, niluy-ahang adobo is your Filipino favorite dish, with a zing.

Pork ribs from the home-grown native pork is cooked in the traditional Filipino ‘pina-uga’ or dry style but not really that dry to be brittle. This one leans towards the native pork humba (read humok nga baboy) which is a pork cooked to tender, but with the hint of the ginger, an omnipresent ingredient in Boholano and Visayan food.

The ginger here is sauteed to evoke that taste that tickles one’s taste buds and the smell of ginger as one emaciates the tender meat is reminiscent of the rural Boholano lifestyle where, in some mountain villages, their adobo indeed carries that hint of ginger.

Although claimed as an experimental fusion from the treasure of Filipino-Visayan cooking traditions as well as the spicy-oily tendency of most Asian food, Many’s Farm chef Josephus ‘Jojo,’ also picks herbs from the farms herb garden to bring out that Asian taste he has grown to like as an international chef.

Filipinos love adobos, no matter how one cooks it.

What makes a proper adobo is usually the effect of the vinegar, onion and peppercorns as the marinade cooks the meat to tender.

In Bohol however, adobo is rendered homey with the use of native vinegar from fermented tuba: the smell this lends to the adobo is almost always celestial for the children who could consume a bowl with this kind of adobo.

For Manay’s, the peppercorn is a subtle aftertaste as the ginger which is also sliced thin can often accompany one’s mouthful of adobo.

Introduced to the Boholanos first by allowing the farm hands to taste the fusion, the raves were generous, according to chef Jojo, and her sister Jeanette “Saysay.”

Now a farm main offer, Chef Jojo has shared the recipe to Saysay, his brother and farm manager Joachim as well as wife Pane’, if only to make sure that anyone in the farm can cook with the same standard of exquisite Asian Filipino blend.

Linuy-ahang Adobo is among the farm’s best sellers when they only took orders and deliveries during the pandemic.

TRIVIA:

Ubiquitous ginger in Boholano food has been proven for its powerful medicinal properties like anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant. A gram or two of ginger help prevent chemotherapy-related and after surgery nausea, especially morning sickness. may help with weight loss, ease osteoarthritis, lower blood sugars and improve heart disease risk factors, as well as treat chronic indigestion.

SLOW-ROAST NATIVE CHICKEN

At Manay’s Farm, it is either native chicken or native pork, no less.

For those whose appetites are drawn to the roasted kind of food, Manay’s Slow Roast native Chicken is a must.

When one’s idea of roasted native chicken is the rubbery, tough meat one has to use not just a butter knife but the sturdier kind, this roast chicken, native as it is, has no need of one. There is not a meat so hard to pick that a spoon and fork could not satisfactorily separate.

Introduced at the Manay’s Farm by its inhouse chef Jojo,’ the recipe earned heartful raves from their customers that keeping that brand is imperative.

By slowly roasting the native chicken in a pan, the chef is able to get rid of the very little fat in the meat, which makes the chicken less oily and thus a healthier alternative.

Also, as one takes a bite in the unsually tender meat, one can not miss the coconutty taste which is the base of the explosion of herbs: a hint of tarragon, rosemary, ginger, laurel. peppercorn and star anise, which transports one to the popular food strips of, is it Thailand or Vietnam?

Admittedly one with an Asian influence, this perfectly pan-roasted chicken elevates the generic roast chicken to loftier heights, one needs not the sweet suggestion of sugar coats, the coconut does it way much better that the sweetness gets through the tender meat.

The trick, the chef partly shared, is the size of the chicken. At .8 to 1.1 kilos, that should be perfect.

At Manay’s, they do not just dress the chicken free-ranging in the yard, these have to be kept in a cage for a day or two, and fed, to empty its stomach of the range food.

TRIVIA:

In Bohol, where majority of the people are Christians, the tradition of Passover is carried on to birthdays. Here, using chicken blood fresh from a dressed chicken’s neck, parents finger-mark the child’s forehead.

To recall, in the Christian tradition, the Egyptians were spared by the angel of death after they mark their doors and lentils with blood.

MANOK HINALANG ALA MANAY’S

At Manay’s Farm, the kitchen staff are just so bold to venture into improvisations as they pick up the fusion concept to their food.

Manok hinalang is, on first sight, a noticeably different from the usual spicy milky chicken soup popular in the southern Philippines.

Somewhat like tinolang manok, the infusion of other ingredients and spices lends to the unique dish its identity.

At Manay’s, the native chicken hinalang is in almost all aspects, your usual hinalang, without the soup and less the spice.

Using some inhouse native chicken dressed and cut to size, the chicken is then marinated in soy and native vinegar, sauteed and then comes the special house herbs and ingredients that makes their hinalang unique.

Cooking this over slow fire is one of the secrets, chef Jojo shared. As to the other ingredients, putting in lemongrass while the marinaded meat is boiled is also another trick. The rest, he politely refused, it being their house secret.

Already fast becoming a unique version of the local hinalang or haling-halang, Manay’s version allows guests the option to make their orders especially hot, or mildly hot suitable for kids.

A garnish of sili espada and some lemongrass and culinary presentation turns mouth watering.

NATIVE CHICKEN TINOLA (TINOLANG MANOK BISAYA)

A Filipino favorite soup, Tinolang Manok Bisaya is another main stay at Manay’s.

Free-range native chicken, those which have not been fed with the commercial feeds, these chicken do have this unequalled taste of the native goodness that it can even go without much of the fancy ingredients.

The secret is to actually cook the meat over slow simmer and keep it under the meat is tender, Manay’s other son chef Joachim or ‘A lot’ bared.

A sautee of garlic, onions, and lots ginger is the base taste one gets from the meat. As soon as the meat is added, it is allowed to cook until tender. When cooked, wedged green papaya is added to add to the taste. And then, the magic that brings back that nostalgic taste of home is the basil, which is added.

For some people, instead of simply adding water as soup, they use rice washing, the starch from the washing adding more body to the soup.

As soon as the meat rolls out from the bones, ground peppercorn, bell peppers and seasoning are added.

This dish is often added with malunggay, spinach or bellpepper shoots, and served with fish sauce or patis. A garnish of a fresh chili shoot also add to the culinary presentation.

TRIVIA

Green or unripe papaya in soups, increase the body’s production of oxytocin, which boosts breastmilk production. In Bohol, it is never unusual for houses with lactating mothers or even with newborn kids to have tinolang manok with papaya as a dish. Green papayas have been popular in Asia for centuries, and is a popular ingredient for many delicious Thai dishes.

STIR FRIED NATIVE PORK OR CHICKEN IN HOLY BASIL

Another Asian fusion and Thai inspired dish here at Manay’s is stir fried ground pork or chicken meat in holy basin, which comes abundant in the farm.

Introduced in 2019, the dish traces its inspiration from the Thai Pad Krapow, a classic Thai dish, which is served in a bowl with rice.

Brought in after savoring and adapting to the spicy ground meat from Thailand, chef Jojo and Saysay, whose memorable days in Cambodia were celebrated with Pad krapow and beer, bringing the dish and adapting it to the Filipino taste is just natural.

Stir fried native pork or chicken combines the tastes of oyster, soy, fish, hint of sugar, and Thai, holy or ordinary basil in a mouth-watering dish whose spicy tastes can bring out the sweat just as easily.

Ground or chopped chicken or pork is stir fried before adding onions, garlic and minced chili, before pouring in the sauces, which still is where the chef put up the improvisation.

As the sauces begin to caramelize in the cooked meat and the pan, the basil is added and cooked until this is wilted.

The dish is served with a garnish of native chilis and could be best served with beer.

Thanks to the innovation of chef Jojo and Saysay, Boholanos can now taste the classic Thai dish, without even leaving Bohol. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

Bohol PhilSys registration aims

to give million ID cards soon

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct 8 (PIA) –At this time, did you know that you can go to a Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) registration center even if you do not live in the town where it is?

And while it can be done now at the time when you have not been registered, now is the time as the modern computer-based registration kits may not be here for long.

PSA Provincial Statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren said Bohol happened to be among the first provinces to get the registration kits, but, it may not be long before these are redistributed to other regions.

That being said, the hint of a later registration, like in 2022, might not be like it is now.

According to the PSA, if one needs to register online now, the centers in Ubay, Talibon, Guindulman, Tubigon and Dauis, Mabini and Bilar are your options.

These plus the Fixed Registration Center at the second floor of the Galleria Luisa and soon to be online Inabanga, Calape and Carmen, Alcazaren said.

Other than those above, current PSA registration centers opened are in Bien Unido, Jagna, Loay, Loon, Panglao, Pilar, President caarlos P. Garcia, Sagbayan, San Miguel, Talibon, Tubigon, Ubay and Valencia.

As the registrations go on, PSA, during the recent Kapihan sa PIA reported they have completed 836,406 Step 2 registrations for the PhilSys in Bohol.

In the country, she said the PSA had some 30M registered in the national identification system nationwide. The Step 2 registration ends with the registrant getting the identification cards by mail.

In fact, some Boholanos have received their cards through mail, these are part of the 1.9M cards that were already delivered after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the PSA partner in printing and putting up the necessary security measures in the catd have 5 million more national ID cards ready for delivery, according to PSA Bohol Alcazaren.

Speaking during the recent Kapihan sa PIA, to commemorate the National Statistics Month in October, the top statistician in Bohol said the provinces is among the first regions piloted to implemented the PhilSys, and the other provinces will come next.

By 2022, much of the modern and computer-based registration kits would be sent out to other provinces, like the 119 of the 181 kits which were already pulled out.

For this, the PSA is again encouraging Boholanos who have not been registered to get to the nearest registration centers.

Step 2 registration in Bohol started February 2, 2021, and weeks later, registration centers in the towns also opened.

But as the year is ending, and Philsys registration shifts to other provinces, later registrations in Bohol might be a hassle.

Right now, Bohol is using 62 registration kits and hopes to get to 1,033,082 registrants by the year ends. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

REGISTER NOW. PSA Bohol Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren urges Boholanos to grab the opportunity to be registered while the computerized registration kits are still in Bohol. Most of these would be sent out to other regions by next year, she added. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

Only 71K COVID vaccine

shots available in Bohol

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct 8 (PIA) – With no vaccine deliveries since September 30, Bohol is now down to 71,983 coronavirus disease vaccine shots and nearly 200,000 expecting their second shots within the next weeks.

Reports from the Bohol Inter Agency Task Force on the management of Emerging Infectious Disease in its October 7 update showed that since March 6 until last week, vaccination teams have dispensed 395,909 doses of the vaccines.

Since March, Bohol has accumulated some 467,892 COVID-91 Sinovac, Astrazeneca, Sputnik V, Pfizer, Moderna, Sinopharm double dose and single dose Johnson and Johnsons vaccines.

This week, the BIATF, using data from the provincial Health Office, which is the base of the Provincial Vaccination Operation Center, said that Bohol has now fully vaccinated 209,453 residents, giving them a full protection against the serious effects of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which is still as dangerous as it was a month ago.

The same report showed that another 186,456 Boholanos completed the first dose of the vaccines and in at most 28 days, would need another jab to complete their protection.

But with only 71,000 doses on stock, if only to make sure those given the first shot could attain full protection within the month, Bohol would still need at least 114,473.

Assuming that this much of the vaccines arrive within the month and are given to those who had their initial doses, Bohol would still be 29.83 percent fully vaccinated.

The latest census on Bohol population by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that there are already 1,394,329 Boholanos.

As the COVID vaccination targets getting to 70% of the local population to give the province the herd immunity that vaccination helps attain, medical authorities have to get to 976,031 residents.

For that sheer number of people to be vaccinated, Bohol would need 1,952,062 vaccine doses as full protection against the disease can only happen after two vaccine doses are administered.

And if getting the herd immunity quick is still so distant, a 50% vaccination rate may be in order.

BIATF spokesperson Dr. Cesar Tomas Lopez shared that at 50% of the general population getting vaccinated, the cases in the general area would start to wane down.

At that number however, Bohol would need to get 926,438 doses of the vaccines to add to the 467,892 that the province has now. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

WAITING. Residents who take the queue to get the vaccines may have to wait a while again as vaccines have yet to arrive in Bohol to restart the vaccination and get it rolling. By indications in the past, Bohol would still need 14 more months to raise the 1.9 million vaccine doses it needs to get herd immunity. (PIAbohol)

Veterans’ hospitalization subsidy

reimbursement program bared

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct 6 (PIA) – Veterans who get hospitalized can get a reimbursement of a maximum of P1,500 per day of confinement; the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) will pay for a maximum of 45 days per patient per year, bares PVAO Bohol Field Service Extension Officer Mario Blasabas.

Speaking at the weekly Kapihan sa PIA on veterans affairs updates and the government’s initiatives to help veterans who are among the vulnerable sectors in this pandemic, Blasabas shared the government’s reimbursement of Hospital subsidy program.

But, based on the program guidelines, the Bohol head of the newly reopened field service office immediately clarified that the basis of the reimbursement would be the Statement of Accounts and the actual amount indicated in the Official Receipt and paid to the hospital, net of other applicable discounts and applicable Philhealth benefits for the confined member or dependent.

The veteran or his dependent paying may opt to file direct reimbursement of hospital subsidy, and this shall be paid based on the actual amount indicated in the Official Receipt, he said.

The program also includes reimbursement of drugs and medicines used by the confined veteran, whether these are critical cases or not.

For critical cases, the medicines and antibiotics reimbursement can go but not beyond P20,00000 per confinement and P10,000 per confinement for non-critical case.

In cases of out-patient maintenance medicines for hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyper-cholesterolemia, prostate and anti-psychotic drugs, the amount to be reimbursed shall be based on the current Drug Price Reference Index (PDRI).

For anti-rejection drugs of kidney transplant cases, PVAO gives P20,000 per month net of senior citizen and Philhealth discounts.

All of these requests for reimbursement of drugs and medicines of confined veteran or veteran dependent as well as reimbursement of OPD maintenance medicines and oral antibiotics pass through the VMMC Medical Screening Committee for evaluation and validation prior to processing of payment by offices concerned.

In the reimbursement claim, the payer in the Official Receipt who chose to be reimbursed needs to submit proof of relationship with the veteran or veteran dependent and proof of identity, plus the following documents: an Accomplished Reimbursement Form or Request Letter, the Statement of Accounts (with date of admission and discharge) signed by the Chief Accountant of the Hospital, or an emailed Statement of Account sent by the Hospital is acceptable.

The claimant should also submit the Medical Certificate or Discharge Summary (which indicates period of confinement) signed by the Attending Physician or Authorized signatory of the Hospital, Proof of Veteran Status, (like VMMC Medical Card, PVAO Pensioner’s ID, Certification from PVAO; AFP Retiree’s ID; Military Honorable Discharge Paper or Retirement Order).

Other than hospitalization and medicines, the reimbursement program also covers other benefits like cataract surgery to a maximum of P14,000 per eye, orthopedic implants, not to exceed P30,000 per implant, dentures not over P5,000.00 or P2,500 for upper dentures and P2,500 for lower dentures.

It also covers hernia mesh, not to exceed P2,000 per mesh, or hearing aid but not over P30,000 per device, orthopedic braces but not to exceed P6,000 per piece, hemodialysis treatment but not over P400 per treatment, and the cost of epoetin alfa after the 90 treatments covered by Philhealth, where P2,500 per treatment can be reimbursed.

For those having cardiac bypass, PVAO reimburses P200,000, for coronary angiogram, cost not to exceed P30,000, chemotherapeutic agents at P10,000.00 per cycle up to a maximum of 6 cycles, angioplasty at P100,000 for single stent and only up to a maximum of P150,000 for two or more vessel stents.

Endoaneurysmectomy for Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Up, to a maximum of P40,000 for vascular graft only, pacemaker placement P20,000 for temporary pacemaker placement and P180,000 for permanent pacemaker placement.

Cranial CT Scan, not to exceed P4,000 with or without contrast, other CT Scan and MRI procedures can be reimbursed based on VMMC rate and approved fees and charges, colonoscopy not over P2,000, extra corporal shock wave litotripsy (ESWL) not to exceed P40,000 Peritoneal Dialysis A (IPD and CADP) not to exceed P5,000 / week to a maximum of P20,000 /month.

Rehabilitation services at P350 per treatment session, maximum of 3 treatment session / week, Ventilator rental not to exceed P300.00 per day, and for kidney transplants, these are not to exceed P200,000 net of Philhealth coverage and senior citizen discount. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

P1500 per day hospitalization assistance would be reimbursed as long as the patient presents the payment receipts less the Philhealth and other discounts given by the hospital, says Mario Blasabas, PVAO head of Bohol. (PIABohol)

Bohol short of 1M COVID

Vaccine doses by May ‘22

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct 5 (PIA) – Even if Bohol gets the same number of vaccines in the next seven months, Bohol is still at least a million doses short of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines to get to the goal of attaining herd immunity in Bohol.

In the Provincial Government’s COVID 19 Vaccination Report as shared by the Bohol Inter Agency ask Force on the management of Emerging Infectious Diseases dates October 4, local authorities said Bohol has received from the national government some 467,892 doses of Sinovac, Astrazeneca, Sputnik V, Pfizer, Moderna, Sinopharm and Johnson and Johnsons since March 6.

It was in March 6, 2021 when Bohol received its first batch of Sinovac COVID vaccines, and on that day, the provincial rollout of the national government vaccination program started.

And since that day, Bohol has been dependent on the vaccines that would come from the national government, except for some local government units like Tagbilaran City here, which has allocated funds for their own vaccination program to hit the herd immunity as fast as they can.

Other than Tagbilaran City, Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), in partnership with the Filipino Chamber of Commerce and Industry also embarked on their own vaccination program for their workers essential to the operation of their businesses and industries to increase consumer confidence and rouse the economy.

It was not clear of the vaccines which the City is buying and the ones sourced out by the BCCI are included in the BIATF count.

But with less than 500,000 doses of vaccines after seven months, in another 7 months, Bohol could still be in the one million vaccines mark.

With the local population reaching 1,394,329 as of the lasts census by the Philippine Statistics Authority, the target is to get to 70% of the local population, shared BIATF spokesperson Dr. Cesar Tomas Lopez.

Seventy percent of 1.4 million is 976,000 Boholanos needing two doses of the COVID vaccines to be fully protected means some 1.5 million doses of the vaccines.

To date, Bohol has sourced out only 467,892 doses in seven months.

Assuming that the national government sends again the same amount of vaccines in the next seven months, then Bohol would still be somewhere between 40 to 50% of its total vaccination target by the election in May of 2022.

At the same accomplishment that Bohol is achieving given its dependence of the national government in its procurement of the vaccines, it would take another year and two months at most from May 2022, before Bohol could get its herd immunity. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)