Heads to roll over laptop mess

Heads will roll over the controversial P2.4-billion purchase of overpriced laptops for the Department of Education, Sen. Francis Tolentino said Thursday, guaranteeing that “many” will face charges following what he described as “revealing and explosive evidence” unearthed in yesterday’s Blue Ribbon Committee hearing.

During Thursday’s hearing, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada pressed Abram Abanil, Board Member of the DBM-PS Special Bids and Awards Committee, if the firm LDLA had been previously awarded a contract to supply laptops to the DepEd by the budget bureau. Tolentino also noted that DepEd officials who had earlier denied their “marginal notes” on documents related to the procurement now admitted the notes were theirs.The official diary, Tolentino said, contained the DepEd’s everyday transactions in connection with the purchase of the laptops intended to be used by teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, when in-person classes were banned, and online education was established.

Abanil said when he was director, ASI was awarded once, but prior to his assuming office, the company was awarded contracts “multiple times” during the previous administration, without specifying how many. He pointed out that awarding contracts to ASI, along with a few other “favored” suppliers, should have raised red flags within the DepEd and investigated by the Commission on Audit , but no probe has been conducted so far on such practices.

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