MAYOR Vicente Emano cried foul as to the veracity of the Commission on Audit (COA-Mindanao) Annual Audit Report – 2004 that revealed how some 311 units of service motor vehicles belonging to the City Government of Cagayan de Oro are not completely accounted for during their physical inventory last year.

August 5, 2008

“Kadaghan ba kaayo anang 311 ka sakyanan (311 vehicles that’s too much!),” he said over dxIF Bombo Radyo yesterday morning. “Kung tinuod kana willing ako nga mo-resign pagka-mayor (If that is true I am willing to resign as mayor of this city).”

Emano slammed those who are under the perception that these vehicles could now be held and used privately by some of his close buddies.

He said this saying he himself does not have a government vehicle or a personal vehicle himself.

“Wala man gani ako sakyanan except aning gubaon na nga pick-up (I don’t even have my own vehicle except this pick-up that I am using),” he said.

Emano also hit on opposition leaders who gave their comments regarding this matter based on report contained on the 72-page COA-Mindanao Annual Audit Report 2004 (AAR-2004) certified by COA-Mindanao assistant cluster director lawyer Mariano Kintanar.

He said the opposition leaders led by his predecessor former city mayor Pablo Magtajas along with several opposition lawyers could slap charges against him should such reports are true.

“Kining mga sakay sa panahon nga mga leader sa opposition nga mi-ingon nga illegal kini inyo kanang katungod nga magpasaka sa akoa ug kaso (These opposition leaders who are saying that I have committed something illegal then it is their right to file charges against me),” he said.

The 72-page COA-Mindanao Annual Audit Report 2004 (AAR-2004) certified by COA-Mindanao assistant cluster director lawyer Mariano Kintanar revealed that there was an appropriation provided for the insurance and registration of motor vehicles.

But this appropriation was not spent which resulted to the non-registration of the motor vehicles with LTO-10 and the failure to have these vehicles insured by GSIS.

“Existing laws require that motor vehicles shall be registered with the Land Transportation Office annually,” the report reads. “Pursuant to pertinent provisions of Republic Act No. 656, otherwise known as the Property Insurance Law, said vehicles shall be insured with the Government Insurance Service System.”

COA-Mindanao reported that during their physical inventory last year, it was found that “registration and insurance of various motor vehicles used for operation were not renewed.”

The agency revealed that on January 21, 2005 they received from the City General Services Office (CGSO) the complete list of unrenewed and unregistered vehicle of the City Government of Cagayan de Oro “after we requested for the same based on our observation during the physical inventory.”

“The list discloses that 311 units of service motor vehicles were either unregistered since the time of their acquisition or no new renewal of the registration was made,” the report reads.

COA-Mindanao has issued a recommendation that Emano this year should “issue a directive to all Department Heads prohibiting the use of all unregistered service vehicles and to impound the unregistered vehicles until the same are registered.

An Emano loyalist who requested anonymity said COA-Mindanao could have been mistaken in coming up with such a report.

“Bisan ug buot pasabot pa niini kanang mga motor lang nga mga sakyanan sa syudad

Basin wala gayud kini sila mag-physical inventory ang mga taga-COA nga nag-audit kay kadako ba kaayo anang 311 ka sakyanan nga unaccounted (Perhaps the COA auditors did not really conduct a physical inventory as 311 motor service vehicles is too big a number to go unaccounted),” he aid.

Magtajas and opposition leaders former city vice-mayor lawyer Antonio Soriano, former Senate Blue Ribbon General Counsel and the city opposition mayoral candidate who filed 18 counts of graft charges against Emano lawyer Ed Tamondong said Emano could face administrative raps for this anomaly.

A COA auditor who requested anonymity also revealed that until now City Hall has so far failed to fully account as to the whereabouts, status, registration at the local Land Transportation Office (LTO-10) and insurance of these vehicles at the regional office of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS-10).

She said it is “ironic” that City Hall, through the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA), traffic czar lawyer Ramon Tabor and even Emano himself, is advocating for drivers to follow all traffic laws when its officials themselves failed to do so.

“Pero ang pangutana man gyud ani kay asa na kini tanan nga mga vehicles? (But the bottomline question here is where are these vehicles now?),” she said. “Ang problema ani kung mabanga-ga or makabangga kini sila kay ang syudad mag-baguod sa gasto og luoy sab kadtong nabang-gaan (The problem here is should any of these motor vehicles crash or would crash into another vehicle it would be the City Government that would stand to lose and the owner of the vehicle would also be put through a lot of hassle).” By Lizanilla J. Amarga (2006)

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