Were dirty tricks used to discredit Duterte done as early 2013? You decide ►Read & Share

I found the article titled "P677M spent on Davao hiring binge" full of malice. It is just my opinion so tell me what you think.

Although this article is old, it has recently been recycled and shows that as early as August 2013, there were already efforts to discredit Mayor Duterte by attacking his daughter Sarah Duterte.

In the 11:02 PM August 22nd, 2013 newsinfo.inquirer.net article written by Gil C. Cabacungan, it reported that "Former Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte went on a hiring spree in the last full year of her term as she signed up 11,000 temporary workers to six-month work contracts, including 110 consultants employed by her office without any proof to show that the personnel deserve their wages."

This is what I can say about this. If there was wrongdoing in Sarah Duterte's transaction, why hasn't COA and DILG done anything to punish her?

Roxas was DILG secretary when this incident happened, so if she did something wrong and Roxas didn't punish her then it proves that Roxas is incompetent.

It is over two years since the incident happened, but no charges against Sarah Duterte has been filed.

If they found irregularities, COA should have filed a case against Duterte and the fact is that they have not shows that this is just a political gimmick to discredit Mayor Duterte.

While quick to attempt to find fault in Duterte, we should also examine the people close to Roxas.

If the story of Jarius Bondoc is true then it is surprising that the airplanes owned by mining giant SR Metals Inc. used by Roxas were given tax exemptions. In 2007, SR Metals Inc. and its sister companies were penalized for overmining. Strange that Roxas has not suggested that that SR Mining should be investigated.

Click here for the full story of Jarius Bondoc titled "Roxas campaign jets got tax exemptions".

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Full newsinfo.inquirer.net article written by Gil C. Cabacungan titled "P677M spent on Davao hiring binge" is shown below.

Former Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte went on a hiring spree in the last full year of her term as she signed up 11,000 temporary workers to six-month work contracts, including 110 consultants employed by her office without any proof to show that the personnel deserve their wages.

This was revealed in a Commission on Audit (COA) report on Davao City’s 2012 financial operations released earlier this month that showed that the Duterte administration could provide only a master list of the individuals hired, their fixed wages and positions and the funding source for their salaries but not official contracts or accomplishment reports about their actual service.

The former mayor said in a text message: “I can’t comment. I haven’t read the COA report.”

In the report, Duterte signed the job orders and contracts for 11,000 individuals in the first half of last year  and 11,024 in the second half last year, spending more than P677 million in government funds for extra wages on what the COA described as redundant work which could be performed by regular employees.

Without any monitoring report to work on, the COA conducted a sample audit of the casuals supposedly working in Duterte’s office and the Barangay Community and Cultural Affairs Division.

The COA said only 59 of the 275 casuals deployed to Duterte’s office were present (management claimed the rest were out on field work  but it did not show any pass slips as proof); none of the 82 barangay auxiliary workers and community volunteers showed up during the validation process (they were said to be working in other barangays but management could not give any deployment plan); and not one of the casuals surveyed was required to submit an accomplishment report which should have served as the basis for their wages.

“The principle of equal work for equal pay is not operational as accountability of hired personnel in terms of producing outputs in return for their wages was not given emphasis or consideration,” the COA said.

“The nonsubmission of accomplishment reports creates doubts as to whether or not funds were used judiciously and conscionably with due regard against waste through improper disposition,” it said.

The city hall human resources management claimed that the heads of each department were monitoring the attendance of the casuals but the COA was adamant that without an accomplishment report, there was no saying that hiring 11,000 people was necessary and advantageous to the government.

Aside from tightening its monitoring, the COA urged the city hall to conduct a comprehensive review of the city’s hiring policy, “with due regard to the actual needs of the office and the availability or nonavailability of such kind of services among the regular employees.”