Emidgio Sosa, director of the Plan Social de la Presidencia clarified yesterday that the 22 containers with items gathered through efforts of Chicago Cubs player Sammy Sosa and that were shipped from Miami, Florida to the DR as humanitarian aid (clothing, food and wood) for victims of Hurricane Georges were consigned to the Plan Social de la Presidencia and not to the Sammy Sosa Foundation, as erroneously has been published. El Siglo newspaper said that of the 22 containers, 17 were received by the Plan Social 11 months after they arrived. El Siglo newspaper explains that the containers arrived to port in October 1998, but it was not until August 1999 that the Plan Social was notified that the containers were in port. This is attributed to negligence by the shipping line. The news story says the Chamber of Accounts is investigating who received the first five containers that were dispatched prior to August 1999. The 22 containers have caused a controversy between two representatives of the Sammy Sosa Foundation, Domingo Dauhajre, based in Santo Domingo, and Arturo Sandoval, based in Miami, who disputed the management of the containers. The news story says that neither of the two was able to retrieve the containers because they were consigned to the Plan Social de la Presidencia. Once they were retrieved, the Plan Social handed them over to the Sammy Sosa Foundation. Given the dispute between Sandoval and Dauhajre, Sammy Sosa notified the Plan Social that his representative in Santo Domingo is Domingo Dauhajre.
