The documents show ghost projects worth P50-100 million funded from the P300 million budget of the vice mayor's office.
I asked the CoA (Commission on Audit) when they allow emergency purchase. They said ‘only in calamities.’ You know what, every month, there are emergency purchases amounting [to] P50-100 million.” said Defensor, pointing out that being a resident of Quezon City, he doesn’t know of any calamity that would justify the release of such an amount during the time it was released.
One of the documents presented showed P733, 000 worth of food and drinks bought for Tahanan, a Quezon City Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, which was signed by Bautista.
But why blame Vice-Mayor Herbert Bautista. He was just following the orders of Mayor Sonny Belmonte…
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