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By REY O. ARCILLA MALAYA ‘Our officials concerned should treat “common” as the operative word, the watchword, in their discussions with the American official.’ MALAYSIANS now claim that Agbimuddin Kiram, younger brother of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram, has slipped back to Mindanao. So? You want him back? Fine. But let us have that soulless Manuel Amalilio who is a Malaysian national, back too. That bastard, Read More …
Source: The Daily Tribune Commission on Audit (CoA) Commissioner Heidi Mendoza apparently is embarking on a new strategy to deal with the Binays: “If you can’t beat them, bite them.” But Vice President Jejomar Binay yesterday branded the CoA official an “attack dog” of an ongoing demolition campaign against him following Mendoza’s testimony against former Makati City Mayor Elenita Binay on the alleged anomalous P72-million Read More …
Source: GMA News A commissioner from the Commission on Audit has tagged the wife of Vice President Jejomar Binay in alleged irregularities in the bidding for a P72-million government supply contract more than a decade ago. Testifying before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court on Wednesday, Commissioner Heidi Mendoza said her audit team noticed indications of possible rigging of the bidding that was done in 2001 when Read More …
By Christine F. Herrera Manila Standard Today As early as 2010, the Commission on Audit has recommended to President Benigno Aquino III the scrapping of the now P317-billion Special Purpose Fund and P117-billion unprogrammed funds to avoid “distortion and duplication” in the budget. This was revealed by former National Treasurer Leonor Briones on Monday during an interview with Manila Standard Today. Briones, a convenor of Read More …
To the Point By Emil Jurado Manila Standard Today In the aftermath of tropical depression Gener which brought torrential rain and flood across the archipelago, people are asking: Where’s our President? Santa Banana, it seems that President Aquino—who calls the people his “boss”—is noynoying again. He simply does not care. In times of distress and disaster, it is natural for people to expect their leaders Read More …
By Macon Ramos-Araneta Manila Standard Today THE Ombudsman has established a partnership with the Commission on Audit (COA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to hasten the investigation and prosecution of corruption cases involving government officials and employees. Ombudswoman Conchita Carpio Morales and COA Chairperson Ma. Gracia Pulido Tan signed an agreement to form a joint investigation team for the purpose, after the Ombudsman signed Read More …
By Ira Pedrasa ABS-CBNnews.com Mrs. Corona’s role in BGEI questioned MANILA, Philippines – Almost 11 years after the project was consummated, the Commission on Audit (COA) questioned the P34.7-million purchase of a Basa-Guidote Enterprises Inc. property for the construction of a train system in Sampaloc. In a notice of disallowance obtained by ABS-CBNnews.com dated March 19, 2012, the Manila office of COA said “the amount Read More …
Auditors disallow P34-M purchase of lot by city of Manila By Cynthia D. Balana Philippine Daily Inquirer Eleven years after the fact? The Commission on Audit (COA) has disallowed the P34.7-million payment that the city government of Manila paid in 2001 to Cristina Corona, the wife of Chief Justice Renato Corona, for a lot in Sampaloc, Manila, citing among other grounds, overpricing and failure to Read More …
By Delon Porcalla The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Former foreign secretary Alberto Romulo may find depressing the news that President Aquino has been categorical about not appointing him chairman of the Commission on Audit (COA) as he had wished. The Chief Executive hinted that Romulo, the first finance secretary of his mother, the late President Cory Aquino, in the ’80s is not among his Read More …