The Office of the Vice President on Tuesday remained unfazed by the findings of the Commission on Audit, opting instead to respond to ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro’s criticism. | JMangaluzINQ
The OVP opted to focus on responding to Castro after she said that there will be a probe into the Office’s procurements.
“The Office of the Vice President would like to disabuse the imagination of ACT Teachers Party-list and the insinuation that the procurement of OVP Satellite Office equipment amounting to P668,197.20, the cost of which was validated by Commission on Audit and eventually passed the audit, was mired in corruption,” it said.
“The COA findings and recommendations should be enough to disappoint ACT Teachers Party-list, and if only France Castro read the COA papers, it would have saved them the time and the energy to conjure wild speculations about OVP spending,” the OVP added.The COA said that the OVP failed to follow procurement rules after it immediately built Satellite Offices nationwide.
“Our audit disclosed that OVP failed to fully observe the processes and procedures required under RA no. 9184 and its IRR in the purchase of its PPE and Semi-Expendable Equipment in SOs totaling P668,197.20,” said the COA report.
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