COA asks Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano to account for PHP317.4 million

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The Commission on Audit (COA) thinks the Taguig City local government is haunted by “ghost employees.”

“COA has asked Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano to account for more than PHP317.4 million that the city government spent on salaries of its contractual employees, who seemed nowhere to be found,” reports Marlon Ramos on Inquirer.net.

The report noted: “The COA also noted the ‘doubtful existence’ of medicines and medical, dental, laboratory and office supplies in City Hall’s inventory amounting to nearly PHP102.3 million.”

The COA likewise explained that the “absence of the payroll register and the specific places of assignment of the job order personnel under the different programs of the city hinders” its audit of the amount given to contractual workers.

In case you didn’t know, the Taguig mayor is the wife of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano.

Photo: Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano’s website

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