ILOILO CITY – The Ombudsman suspended Mayor Receliste Escolin of President Roxas town, Capiz province, for three months without pay due to misconduct. ESCOLIN (DA-6) Associate Ombudsman Arita Lapitan has issued an order to Gov. Fredenil Castro to implement Escolin’s suspension. The order...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (Facebook) Please don't embarrass the President again. Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers had this to say to the Commission on Higher Education Education's (CHEd)...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Ombudsman suspended Mayor Jose Arturo Suan of Allen, Northern Samar for six months without pay after he was found guilty of grave abuse of authority and oppression. Suan officially received the suspension order from the Department of the Interior and Local Government...
Rowena Guanzon (X) P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon stood firm on her innocence in a series of X posts Monday, Jan. 8--a day after it was reported that the Office of the Ombudsman approved the filing of graft charges against her. Guanzon, a...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has approved the filing of graft charges against former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Rowena Amalia V. Guanzon for the alleged premature disclosure to the public in 2022 confidential information on the disqualification case against then candidate...
Bohol 1st District Rep. Edgar M. Chatto, his wife and Mayor Pureza Chatto of Bililihan town, and three other persons have been charged administratively and criminally in connection with the two dismantled waterwork projects in 2021. The complaint was contained in an affidavit filed by Emmanual B....
Criminal and administrative complaints have been filed against Mayor Ramon C. Oñate of Palompon town in Leyte and three other persons before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) for their alleged "environmental transgressions" in 2017 that reportedly favored the business interest of the mayor. Also...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) will file criminal charges before the Sandiganbayan against Department of Agriculture (DA) Assistant Secretary for Consumer Affairs Kristine Y. Evangelista and 17 others in the shortage and spiralled prices of onion in 2022. In a separate decision, the OMB...
Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin (PPAB) House Deputy Majority Leader Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin is viewing the Ombudsman case filed against her as a positive instead of a negative. "We see this case as an opportunity to finally put an end...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has ordered the Eulogio Amang Rodriquez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST) to pay Mars Laboratory Instruments Center (MLIC) P3.5 million, the amount still due to the firm for the 4-in-1 Multimedia Language Laboratory System installed in 2014. In a four-page...
Criminal and administrative complaints were filed on Wednesday, Oct. 11, before the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) against Panabo City, Davao del Norte Mayor Jose E. Relampagos in the appointment of the city's budget officer as officer-in-charge when he travelled abroad from Sept. 21, to 23, 2023....
Ombudsman Samuel Martires has formally asked the Senate and the House of Representatives to significantly decrease the P51-million confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) allocated to his office to P1-million under the proposed 2024 national budget. In his letter to Sen. Juan...
