Mandaue mayor Ted Ouano, Lapu-Lapu mayor Arturo Radaza lead 19 public officials ordered suspended by the Tanodbayan over the multimillion-peso lamps purchase. (Sun.Star Cebu file photo)
CEBU CITY -- Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano, Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Arturo Radaza and 17 other public officials were suspended Thursday to give way to the ongoing investigation on their alleged participation in the overpriced purchase of lamps for the Asean summit.
Tanodbayan Merceditas Gutierrez signed the order for the six-month preventive suspension, which the officials can remedy by seeking a temporary restraining order from the Court of Appeals.
MANILA -- The Manila police chief and two of his officers will be removed from their posts, the interior secretary said Thursday, in the fallout from a hostage standoff in which 26 children were held for 10 hours on a bus in the name of social reform.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao made official Thursday his bid for the first congressional district of South Cotabato after he filed through his lawyer his candidacy for the post.
