CEBU CITY, Philippines -- The City Legal Office has requested the Commission on Audit (COA) to investigate the "destruction" of the Mayor's Office by former Mayor Tomas Osmeña on
The photo on the left is the Mayor’s Office in November 2017 while the right photo is the mayor’s Office on June 28, 2019 when outgoing mayor Tomas Osmeña removed his ‘personal things’ from the office. | CDN FILE photo and Gerard Francisco
The City Legal Office has sent a letter to COA on Monday, July 22, 2019, to verify if the stripping bare of the office was in violation of the COA guidelines that any demolition of government property must undergo a COA appraisal first.
the COA must inspect the property prior to its destruction to determine if there is justification for the same and to appraise the value of the property.floor of the Executive Building of Cebu City Hall was covered by this COA regulation as part of a government property.He also said that the actions of the former mayor to strip bare the Mayor’s office from fixtures was a clear “destruction” of the property especially when some of the electrical wirings, sinks, and partitions were destroyed.
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