The Office of the Ombudsman indicted Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials after being found guilty of grave misconduct over irregularities on the rehabilitation of two bridges in Cauayan, Negros Occidental.
Officers-in-charge, District Engineer Haydee S. Alunan and Assistant District Engineer Elsie V. Sabay of the 3rd Negros Occidental Engineering District, have also been dismissed from service and barred from taking the civil service examination.
It was reported that the respondents ordered to begin rehabilitation of the Mabua bridge in Barangay Poblacion and Bagambayan Bridge in Barangay Tiling on February 10, 2014, set for completion on June 29, 2014 as stated in the Notices to Proceed addressed to OPELL Construction and Development Corporation.
However, the Ombudsman said that in an ocular inspection on December 3, 2015, the Field Investigation Office found the bridges still unfinished.

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