BACOLOD City – The Commission on Audit (COA) ordered five regular city government employees to pay for the government service vehicles issued under their names.
The vehicles could no longer be accounted for.
The employees were recently issued with show-cause orders by the City Legal Office (CLO) to explain why the vehicles went missing.
According to City Legal Officer Romeo Carlos Ting Jr., the five employees shall pay the corresponding amount of the vehicles.
COA found there was negligence on the part of the employees. They reported the vehicles missing just recently when these could no longer be found for almost 10 years.
The employees, according to Ting, could also be charged administratively.
The issuance of the show-cause is already part of the process leading to the filing of administrative charges, he said.
The show-cause orders were served on July 12. Three of them were assigned at the Office of the Building Official (OBO), City Cooperative and Livelihood Development Office, and at the City Management Auditing Services Office (MASO).
One of them said he managed to recover the vehicle assigned to him.
In February, the city government conducted an inventory of all its 500 issued vehicles.
Of these, 197 vehicles were serviceable, 108 were unserviceable, 90 were unaccounted, 88 were not reported, 13 had no documents to be verified, and four were returned./PN
