The Commission on Audit (COA) has dismissed the P78.956 million payment claimed by Adlib International Sales, Inc. (AISI) from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)-Procurement Service and the Presidential Security Group (PSG) for the supply and delivery of two mobile X-ray units in 2015....
"Weakness in internal control and lapses in monitoring and recording" brought about the P34.7 million increase in the costs of fuel consumption by the province of Nueva Ecija in 2023, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. In its audit report, COA said that Nueva Ecija spent P100.6 million for...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the provincial government of Aurora over the "misuse" of its Rice Processing Complex (RPC) worth $2.3 million and the uncollected income from its supposed lease to a farmers' cooperative. The RPC was constructed on a $2.3 million grant from the Korean...
The officials and members of the Board of Directors (BODs) of Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) disbursed P3.1 million in "irregular and unnecessary" expenses for foreign travels in 2023, the Commission on Audit (COA) said in its annual audit report. COA said that the CIAC...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has scored the delay in the construction of the P316.4 million Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower building of the Clark International Airpot (CIA) in Pampanga. In its audit report, COA said that the construction of the ATC buildng was only 60.90 percent complete as of...
Again, the provincial government of Eastern Samar has been flagged by the Commission on Audit (COA) in its 2023 annual audit report. Earlier, COA found that Contract of Service (COS) and Job Order (JO) personnel hired by Eastern Samar province were not only paid below the daily minimum wage,...
Mayor Ruffy Biazon welcomed the Commission on Audit’s “unmodified opinion” for the Muntinlupa City government’s financial report for 2023. Unmodified opinion, according to COA, “is issued when the auditor concludes that the financial statements are prepared, in all material...
The provincial government of Leyte "misused" P1.287 million of its Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (LDRRMF) for catering services and other unrelated activities in 2023, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. In its 2023 annual audit report, COA said disbursements...
Contract of Service (COS) and Job Order (JO) personnel hired by Eastern Samar province were were not only paid below the daily minimum wage, but worse, their salaries were always delayed in 2023, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. In its annual audit report, COA said that when the audit...
The Government Arsenal (GA), an agency under the Department of National Defense (DND) in charge of producing basic weaponry and ammunition for the military and the police, has been flagged by the Commision on Audit (COA) over "abnormal losses" incurred in the production of bullets in 2023....
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the officials of Ramos town in Tarlac for "lack of responsiveness to the real needs of residents' when 90 percent of the town's farmlands were inundated and 1,126 families were affected by typhoons "Egay" and "Falcon" in July and August 2023. In its 2023...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has reminded local government units (LGUs) against exceeding the "statutory limitation" on disbursements for extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses (EME) or discretionary funds taken out of their collected real property taxes (RPTs). It cited the case of...
