Ombudsman orders Pampanga mayor dismissed, charged with graft

PAMPANGA, Philippines – The Office of the Ombudsman ordered a mayor of a Pampanga town removed from office even as it approved the filing of criminal cases against him and several others for allegedly engaging in alleged anomalous purchases of road construction materials from a single supplier in 2009 and 2010.

Facing the same charges are local officials including Marlon Maniacup, chair of the bids and awards committee , as well as committee members Lucila Agento, Jesus Punzalan, Luz Bondoc, and Romeo Razo. Municipal accountant Perlita Lagman faces 23 counts of graft and seven counts of malversation of public funds.

“I’ll give an update later. I’m okay. Yesterday when they served it, I wanted things to be peaceful, so I didn’t resist or anything because I’ll fight this through the legal process. It’s not like others who put up barricades. Although someone requested that we should barricade ourselves. I said we should just fight through the proper forum,” Tumang said.

The Ombudsman stated, “Respondents’ actions are wrongful and motivated by an intentional purpose of giving favor or benefit to Buyu, notwithstanding its questionable capacity as a supplier, causing damage to the government in the aggregate amount of the procurements.”

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