SAGADA, MOUNTAIN
PROVINCE - A complaint filed at the office of the
Ombudsman asked
lifestyle check of Sagada mayor Engr Eduardo Latawan
Jr, double-funded farm
to market roads and a probe on the long delayed
completion of the 36
million Boasaw waterworks.
Complainant Grace Bandoy
alleged that Latawan acquired properties in
separate dates during
his term as mayor of Sagada municipality since
he entered the elective
post in 2007.
Complainant demanded
investigation on Latawan’s acquisition of real
estate properties
in Sto Tomas, Quezon Hill and Pacdal Baguio City
and separate lots in
eastern and southern Sagada while he was mayor of
the town in 2008 till
now.
Latawan’s newly acquired
lot in southern Sagada last year is located
near the newly
inaugurated Balangagan cave in Taccong, Sagada.
This, aside from his
newly built three-story house at Antadao, Sagada
in 2009 while the
municipal building was being built at the same time.
An earlier complaint
charged Latawan of not having filed his
Statement of
Assets and Liabilities (SALN) since he entered
government office in
2007.
Said complaint also
asked investigation of alleged overpricing of the
four- story municipal
building costing nearly 22 million pesos as
compared to a four-
story private commercial building built in the
same period of time
costing 10 million pesos.
Said complaint also
alleged 200% plus slippage on the full completion
of the P36 million
Boasaw waterworks supposed to have been finished
early 2013.
The P36 million
waterworks fund was sourced from an P18 million
priority development
assistance funds (PDAF) of Senator Teofisto
Guingona 111 and P18
million from Cordillera Highland Agricultural
Resource Management
Project (CHARMP). The 36 million peso project was
awarded to
Cotabato-based FFJJ construction in December 2011 jointly
implemented by
said construction company and the LGU of Sagada.
Complaint also asked
investigation on the alleged double funding of
farm to market roads
namely Angaang -Angtin, Ato-Engan and Kanipawan
located in Sagada. Said
projects were allotted the amounts of P3.5
million each from
the questioned realignment of P10 million from a
P15 million Tanulong-
Madongo FMR allotted from Pamana funds.
Said complaint
asked probe on the implementation of the same
Ato-Engan FMR allotted
P1.3 million from the BUB listed projects for
2014 monitored by
the National Alleviation Poverty Commission- Department of Interior and Local Government and a P350,000 also
from BUB listed projects in 2013; and a P350
thousand pesos budgeted
in 2013 for the same Kanipawan FMR. (Mountain Province Exponent, February 22,2015)
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