Case no.

Mga atat sa DPWH bidding Hoy! Nakakahiya kayo!

By Eralyn Prado from http://www.abante.com.ph

FACTS:

Tinawag ni Senate President Aquilino Koko Pimentel III na kahiyahiya

ang ulat ng ilang district engineers at regional directors ng Department of
Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ang nagsimula nang magsagawa ng
bidding ng mga proyekto para sa susunod na taon gayong nakasalang pa sa
deliberasyon ng Kongreso ang proposed 2017 budget o General Appropriations
Act (GAA).

Kaya naman kinalampag ni Pimentel si DPWH Sec. Mark Villar na

imbestigahan ito at kung mapapatunayang totoo ay agad na sibakin ang mga
tiwaling opisyal na sangkot sa ganitong iregularidad.

It is both shameful and deplorable why certain DPWH district engineers

and regional directors would already schedule the conduct of biddings for
projects that are yet to be officially approved by Congress and signed by the
President into law, ayon pa kay Pimentel.

Ayon pa sa senador, Kung may tara sa Bureau of Customs, meron din

palang obligasyon sa DPWH, na ang tinutukoy ng senador ay ang padulas na
umanoy binibigay ng mga winning contractors sa kanilang koneksyon sa
DPWH.
Discussion

The acts of district engineers and regional directors of Department of

Public Works and Highways (DPWH) that to bid with the projects for next year
that are not officially approved by the congress and the president was
unethical, because, at first, the projects are not officially approved, so, it was
not sure if it will be constructed. Secondly, there is currently offending the
proposed 2017 budget or the General Appropriations Act (GAA) in the
deliberation of the congress.

Aside from that, there is also an issue that the winning contractors were
giving illegal money to their connections in the DPWH. This act is also
unethical, because, the engineers should work fair to others.

Case no. 5

Tiwaling DPWH Engineer

FACTS:

Sisiyasatin din ng Imbestigador ang reklamo laban sa isang DPWH

district engineer na tadtad na raw sa kasong graft and corruption pero
nananatili pa rin sa puwesto. Minsan na ring nasuspende ang nasabing
inhinyero at kasalukuyan lang siyang nakapagpiyansa dahil sa patung-patong
na niyang kaso ng katiwalian. Ngayon isa na namang reklamo ang ipinupukol
sa kanya. Ang halos isang kilometrong kalsada na dapat ayusin, idineklara na
raw na 100% kumpleto. Pero nang puntahan ng Imbestigador, hindi halos
madaanan ng mga sasakyan ang kalsada dahil puro putik at baku-bako pa ito.

Discussion

The acts of the DPWH district engineer was unethical, because, the
district engineer declares that the project of almost 1 kilometer road was 100%
finish, but the truth is it was not totally finish and the vehicles almost cant
passed the road because of muds and depressions base on the findings of the
investigators.

Case no. 6

Ex-worker bares faking of documents in DPWD

By: Germelina Lacorte - @inquirerdotnet

FACTS:

DAVAO CITYThe falsification of documents, signatures included, in

connection with projects implementation is a common practice in the
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), claimed a former
agency worker, who had sued four social welfare officials in the Ombudsman
on Friday.
Charged with falsification of public documents were Annabelle Jabla,
regional financial analyst of the DSWDs Kapitbisig Laban sa Kahirapan
Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Service (Kalahi-CIDSS) program,
and engineer Santos Eusebio Jr., Kalahi-CIDSS regional community
infrastructure specialist.
 Those charged with dereliction of duties were Priscilla Razon, DSWD
officer in charge regional director, and Loreta Anas, head of the DSWDs
human resources department.
June Sanchez-Obenza, former community development assistant under
the Pamana project of the DSWDs Kalahi-CIDSS program, said the forgery of
signatures of two construction workers in the bunkhouse project for Typhoon
Pablo victims in Compostela town in Compostela Valley was among many
incidents of falsification of documents by some social welfare officials.
Perhaps, only two workers were discovered in Compostela because it
could be that all the others were ghost workers, she told reporters here after
she filed the cases in the Office of the Ombudsman for Mindanao. Baganga,
Cateel and Boston in Davao Oriental, and she had witnessed some of these
acts of dishonesty among officials.
Obenza said, in other DSWD programs, the same thing happened in the
past, long before Typhoon Pablo hit Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley.
She said, in Kalahi-CIDSS projects, social welfare officials would also
connive to forge documents to meet the deadline set by the World Bank, the
main fund donor.
There are two issues here: The forging of signatures in the regular
implementation of DSWDs Kalahi-CIDSS program and the forging of
signatures in the disaster response projects, particularly in the construction of
bunkhouse [for typhoon-devastated areas], Obenza said.
In justifying the charges she brought up against Jabla, Eusebio, Razon
and Anas, she said it was obvious the four officials were involved in a
conspiracy at the governments disadvantage.
She said she opted to seek the Ombudsmans help in combating the
malpractice because the complaints she had earlier filed in the DSWDs
grievances and redress committee never yielded positive results.
 Obenza said the four DSWD officials have conspired and committed acts
of grave misconduct and dishonesty in office and acts that are criminal in
nature, such as forging of public documents.
She identified Jabla and Eusebio in the charge sheet as the ones
responsible for the forgery, while Razon and Anas also allegedly played major
roles in the misconduct.
In her affidavit-complaint, she recounted how on Nov. 14-16, during the
request for fund releases, preparation and review workshop at Eden Nature
Resort, Jabla and Eusebio ordered the forging of signatures of public officials
to speed up the release of funds for Kalahi-CIDSS projects. She would not
name the public officials, whose signatures had been forged, but added she
had documents to prove this claim.
Obenza said she opposed the move but the two officials retorted it was
the only way to speed up the implementation of the projects in deference to the
deadline the World Bank had set.
My immediate supervisor, Nick Digol, the community process specialist,
and Eusebio, she added.
In her affidavit, Obenza also mentioned a complaint made by a private
contractor for a Kalahi-CIDSS project in Manay, Davao Oriental, about a
commission, which the Kalahi-CIDSS engineer (Eusebio) had allegedly
demanded.
She said the commission was about 10 percent of the total project cost.
Obenza said, when she confronted Eusebio about this, the official had
told her he was merely soliciting sponsorship for his daughters birthday.
She said what drove her to sue the four DSWD officials was the hope that
it would eventually trigger a wider investigation.
I decided to file the case in the Ombudsman because there are already a
lot of things coming out in the media, and the central office is still asking us to
wait [for the results of the grievance committee investigation] but are they
really investigating? Obenza asked.