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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Government Employees Union (BCGEU) is ready for any investigation, its president said.
The BCGEU is facing an Office of the Ombudsman probe over its alleged P8-million budget for a three-day year-end activity.
Union president Atty. Allyn Luv Dignadice said yesterday they are willing to answer any query with regard to their expenses.
They have all the supporting documents – in fact, they have prepared them for submission to the Commission on Audit (COA) – she said.
“It will all depend on the COA on how it would look into and evaluate our documents,” Dignadice said.
The investigation stemmed from a Jan. 8 letter that print columnist Edgar Cadagat sent to the Ombudsman questioning the budget for BCGEU’s assessment activity from Dec. 27 to 29, 2017.
In a Jan. 26 letter that officer-in-charge Sarah Jo Vergara of the Ombudsman Visayas addressed to Cadagat, the investigation was docketed as FF-V-18-0052.
In his letter to the Ombudsman, Cadagat was curious how an event held only at the Bacolod City Government Center, where food like siopao, chicken inasal and pork adobo, among others, were served, and where job order workers received gift packs could have a budget of P8 million.
Dignadice insisted that they see no problem with their activity. “It was a year-end assessment, everything was accounted for and there were recipients,” she said.
In addition, the BCGEU has submitted to the Office of the Mayor all the documents needed for liquidation as required by the COA, said the union president./PN
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