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Published May 6, 2021, 9:11 PM The Commission on Audit (COA) has questioned the Davao City government’s assets amounting to more than P9.48 billion or 40 percent of its total assets recorded as of Dec. 31, 2020 as well as its millions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disbursements last year. COA (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Based on the 2020 audit of the Davao City released on Wednesday, May 5, the Davao City’s Property, Plant, and Equipment (PPE) accounts amounting to more than P9.48 billion “cannot be ascertained as to its validity, correctness and existence.” “Amidst the COVID-...

18th February 2021 Silas Motlalekgosi, the former Commissioner of Prisons, was not just retired his sacking, it would appear, emanates from a disputed tender. He had hoped to receive P 3 million and several hundred thousands from a government tender until the levers of power were cocked into action to circumvent his impending windfall. The State was about to purchase his property for P3,700,000.00 (Three million seven hundred thousand Pula but reneged at the eleventh hour.  President Mokgweetsi Masisi fired Motlalekgosi seven days after his intention to challenge the legality of a decision...

Published January 19, 2021, 3:34 PM DAVAO CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Davao Region has terminated the controversial P1-billion road infrastructure project, which would have widened portions of MacArthur Highway, and built the Ma-a Flyover, after encountering strong resistance from the business sector and environmental groups. DPWH-Davao Spokesperson Dean Ortiz told reporters, in a teleconference on Tuesday, that the agency has already notified Mayor Sara Duterte that the project, which was expected to provide a solution to the worsening traffic congestion along...

SunStar File photo January 19, 2021 THE Department of Public Works and Highways-Davao Region (DPWH-Davao) will no longer push through with the fly-over project along McArthur Highway due to opposition from various sectors. DPWH-Davao spokesperson Dean Ortiz told SunStar Davao in a phone interview on Tuesday, January 19, that the road-widening project covering Sandawa Road to Tulip Drive Junction was supposed to be implemented in preparation for the construction of the 1.7-kilometer Maa Flyover project worth P600 million this year. But Ortiz said the P1-billion road infrastructure...