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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Culverts missing, too
By Erwin ambo S. Delilan
THE City Mayor's Office and the City Legal Office (CLO) should not only focus on the missing 5,700 bags of cement from the warehouse of the City Engineer's Office (CEO).
They also need to check the alleged missing culverts from the same office.
An employee of the CEO who requested anonymity reported to Sun.Star Monday that it is not only the cement supplies that were reported missing from their office but also the culverts that have CEO markings.
"The missing cement and culverts are no longer news to us. It has been happening for the past several months. Only, it so happened that somebody reported the 200 bags of cement delivered to a warehouse in Mansilingan," he said, adding that they were only keeping silent on the irregularities committed in their office.
He said there is a private truck that is being used in hauling the culverts from the CEO compound.
According to the source, this usually happens before 5 p.m. and brought to a place that he identified. He requested though that Sun.Star withheld the information pending the investigation.
The CEO employee added that Engineer Julio Belleza, one of the subjects in the ongoing probe conducted by the legal office over the mess, has ample knowledge on what was happening at CEO.
"I think he should tell the truth before everything becomes too late for him," the CEO employee said.
Attempts to reach Belleza Monday were not successful. However, one of the members of the Belleza family told Sun.Star that Belleza met with his legal counsel, whose name they withheld, Monday night.
City Engineer Loreto Dilag, on the other hand, cannot be reached for comment.
"I hope Mayor Evelio Leonardia could unearth the controversy hounding the CEO and do something about it or else he will also be held liable later on," said the CEO employee.
On the other hand, four employees of the CEO are to be suspended from work effective today pending the investigation of the mess.
Another one is due to be terminated.
Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia has signed the memorandum of preventive suspension for 30 days without pay for City Engineer Loreto Dilag and his men Joel Locsin, Julio Belleza and Ruben Tad-y after reviewing the findings of lawyers Ma. Gliceria Caduhada, assistant city legal officer, Vicente Petierre III, and Bartolome Malde on the incident.
Truck driver Mariano Navarro, a casual-plantilla employee, is also terminated effective Tuesday.
On the other hand, truck driver Renato Inion, who is not a City Government employee, was not subjected to CLO's investigation.
(June 27, 2006 issue)
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