FORMER Governors Benigno R. Fitial and Juan N. Babauta, and Vice Speaker Blas Jonathan Attao said they are grateful to the Marianas Public Land Trust for providing loans to critical government agencies.
In separate interviews, Fitial and Babauta said they join MPLT in its objection to Senate Legislative Initiative 22-5, which proposes to give the governor and the Legislature oversight and appropriation powers over MPLT.
It was during Fitial s administration when the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. received a $3.5 million loan from MPLT to acquire power supply from Aggreko.
Fitial said there were âpower outages after power outagesâ in the CNMI at the time, necessitating the acquisition of power from Aggreko.
THE 22nd Senate on Monday elected Tinian’s Jude U. Hofschneider as president, Justo S. Quitugua of Saipan as vice president, Vinnie Sablan of Saipan as floor leader and Victor B.