OPAPP scammers using PAMANA to fleece funds

LGUs warned 

BAGUIO CITY -- Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) national program director Sherwin Vizconde has called on local government units to report incidents of individuals or groups claiming to represent the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) to collect money through PAMANA projects.

“You can contact me directly, the office, or someone from the Area Management Teams (AMTs),” Vizconde told Cordillera officials in this summer capital recently.

According to Vizconde, people claiming to be from OPAPP have been tricking people into giving them money with the false promise of giving them PAMANA projects.

“These individuals are even using the names of OPAPP officials to ask for money,” he said.

Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza earlier issued the same warning to the public on June 5 after he met an individual who lost a considerable amount of money to people misrepresenting the agency.

Vizconde was in Baguio City to spearhead the conduct of a midterm assessment of PAMANA projects with implementing partners in CAR.