Manila
Mayor Isko Moreno is not letting the momentum be put to waste.
He has now
put his sights to the city’s local barangay officials who have been reported to
him doing the city and the people of Manila disservice.
The local
chief executive has warned his constituents that he would prosecute barangay officials who would mishandle, misuse or steal public funds.
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| Manila mayor Isko Moreno (photo credit to owner) |
He shares
that he has already received complaints against village leaders allegedly siphoning
off taxpayers’ money by conniving with city budget and accounting employees.
Moreno at
the National Press Club says that barangay
projects had been bid off in the past to favor contractors, which could be the
relatives and friends of barangay officials.
“I am
warming all barangay chairmen that you will be my next target after I am done
cleaning the city,” he said.
The scheme
of compartmentalizing projects to be the loophole, this is done for example a P400,000
project may be broken up into eight parts so it doesn’t have to be
subjected to bidding. It is a rule in Manila when the project costs of P50,000
and below there is no need to bid it out.
There are
at least four barangay chiefs in Tondo are also being probed for project
irregularities, including the use of materials recycled from past projects,
according to Moreno.
The
practice of hiring street sweepers and tanods (village guards) and then firing
them so their salaries can be drawn by barangay officials had also reached his
attention,
Projects on
the declogging of canals are being turned into moneymaking schemes by some
barangay executives, Mayor Isko said.
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