MERGED: All about the Lamp post Scandal and related issues

[Canucks]

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Tinuod jud ni imong ingon Bro nga ang mga engineers jud ang madakdakan sa tanan. Makaipsot ang naka kwarta ug daku ang mga kawatan dagko. Looy kaayo ang mga engineers.Saon pirma na lang pud sila kay mag ayo ug di mo pirma. I know personally nga hadlok jud ni Teddyboy ang mga department heads sa City Hall sa una. Kung naay idudu nga papeles papirmahan pirma na lang labi na iyahang umagad nga si Cheryl ang magdala sa mga papeles pirmahanan.Kana ra siguro ang City Treasurer sa Mandaue ang di kaayo ma sayon2x ni Teddyboy.Mayra gyud napildi ang mga Ouano ni Jonas.

Ang abogado handle sa case ni Teddy Boy mao sad gipa handle sa mga Mandaue Engineers nga caso ... wa gihapon nitagam ni sila mag agad gihapon ilang amo sa una unya maoy niburot sa kwarta nga kinurakot. Mata na intawn mo uy nga kanang gigasto sa inyong caso ang komisyon na sa lamp post sa mayor ninyo sa una ! Basin maniguro ra na sa iyaha kamong mga Engineers ang mga preso ... magkatawa ra nang ukoy nga daku , pagka luoy ninyo !

[giddyboy]

Stronger lamppost case — Ombuds
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 10:23:00 04/24/2009

VISAYAS Deputy Ombudsman Pelagio Apostol yesterday assured stronger cases against officials implicated in the alleged overpricing of the lampposts installed during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in 2007.

He explained that his office was taking a longer time to wrap-up the re-investigation because they had to gather more pieces of evidence.

“It is taking us longer because we want to make sure all preparations are in order. We also do not want the delay,” he said.

Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Arturo Radaza, one of the respondents in the case, filed a motion before the Sandiganbayan's First Division, crying foul over the approved extension for the re-investigation of the case.

full article:
Stronger lamppost case — Ombuds - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

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LAWYER
Gutierrez pressured to refile lamppost cases
By Jhunnex Napallacan, Ador Vincent Mayol
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 13:30:00 05/08/2009

Graft charges were refiled yesterday against former Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano and several other officials involved in the lamppost scandal but Ouano’s lawyer said the timing was suspcious.

Lawyer Dennis Añover said he suspected that the decision of Tanodbayan Merceditas Gutierrez to refile the graft cases in the Sandiganbayan was prompted by her impending impeachment case before the House of Representatives.

“I have a feeling that because of the pending impeachment case against the Ombudsman, she is under pressure to file whatever cases she feels necessary to somehow lessen the heat on her…,” Añover said.

He said he was surprised the graft cases against those linked to the alleged overpricing of the decorative lampposts were refiled when the office of the Ombudsman had previously withdrawn the cases and that its prosecutors assigned to the case admitted that “they had no case at all.”

The refiled cases named Ouano, Lapu-lapu City Mayor Arturo Radaza, eight engineering staff from both cities, and nine regional executives of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) as respondents for their alleged involvement in the overpricing of over P300 million worth of decorative lampposts installed in Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-lapu cities for the Association of Southeast Asian Nation Summit in January 2007.

The Office of the Ombudsman refiled the graft cases yesterday after completing its reinvestigation.

full article:
Gutierrez pressured to refile lamppost cases - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

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Lamps cases ‘just a smokescreen’
Sun.Star Cebu
Friday, May 8, 2009
By Karlon N. Rama

WITH the Asean lamppost cases revived, the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas will move that all public officials impleaded in the charges be placed under preventive suspension.

Deputy Ombudsman Pelagio Apostol said in an interview yesterday that this is usually done after arraignment. It is mandatory under Sec. 13 of Republic Act (RA) 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.

The provision states that “any public officer against whom any criminal prosecution under a valid information under this Act
or under the provisions of the Revised Penal Code on bribery is pending in court, shall be suspended from office.”

The lawyer of former Mandaue City mayor Thadeo Ouano said they are still waiting for their copy of the anti-graft office’s re-investigation report.

Lawyer Dennis Añover, however, suspects that the revival of the charges is to smokescreen the impeachment proceedings against Tanodbayan Merceditas Gutierrez.

full article:
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/lamps...creen%E2%80%99

[LytSlpr]

^^^ay dah c Gwen na iyaha pasabot.

ikaw ni ingon ana, patay gyud ka ni tita gwen. hehe!!

grabe ra ba na ug temper.

[giddyboy]

ikaw ni ingon ana, patay gyud ka ni tita gwen. hehe!!

grabe ra ba na ug temper.

hahaha. actually mas hadlok pa ko ni Tomas kontra ni Gwen...

[skadiboy]

angay na silang silotan... g ahak lang ana

[please_pinangga]

asa na kaha ang mga lampost ron sah?.....wa na man nagsiga!

[reclamador]

asa na kaha ang mga lampost ron sah?.....wa na man nagsiga!

gi hinay hinay ug kawat aron way ebedensya

[noigwen]

ipatimbang guro.. hehehe

[rts1980]

unsa na balita ani? mura man nahilum oi.. last time i heard sa news, gepasakaan na sila ug kaso..

[randzg]

grabeha.. so na-unsa na ni ron?