The Office of the Ombudsman has preventively suspended Bohol Gov. Aris Aumentado and 68 others including town mayors for six months without pay in connection with the investigation into the controversial construction of Captain’s Peak Resort at the foot of Chocolate Hills.
MANILA, Philippines —
The ombudsman FIO said that the “public respondents acted with manifest partiality, evident bad faith, gross inexcusable negligence and committed gross violations” of the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 and the expanded NIPAS Act of 2018. Martires said that order was signed on his behalf by Special Prosecutor Edilberto Sandoval as he was on official leave at that time.
Likewise ordered suspended were several barangay officials as well as regional officials of the Office of the Civil Defense, Department of Science and Technology and Department of Agriculture.Bohol Island is also declared a UNESCO Global Geopark, the only tourism area in the country to secure the coveted title.
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