Hontiveros said the Senate should once again invite Lao, this time to shed light on the purchase of the laptops.
PS-DBM awarded the supply contract for the laptops on June 30 last year to the joint venture of LDLA Marketing and Trading Inc., VSTECS Inc., and Sunwest Construction and Development Corp. –the construction firm owned by the family of party list Rep. Elizaldy Co of Ako Bicol, who is also the founder of the Sunwest Group Holding Co. Inc.
“It seems that there’s a ‘part two, part three’ of the previous acts and the name of Lao is being linked into this,” Hontiveros said.“I think the investigation should not just center on the overpriced laptops, but on the ‘repeat performance’ of the PS-DBM in this questionable transaction under the leadership of Lao,” she added.Hontiveros said an inquiry into the procured laptops should expand its focus, including the possibility of recommending the abolition of state agencies.
“This deprived 28,917 teachers of the possible benefits from the supposed provision of these laptops,” Gatchalian, the chair of the Senate basic education committee, said in a statement.“It’s alarming that public funds were not used properly for our teachers who served as front liners in providing education,” the senator also said.
DOH officer in charge Maria Rosario Vergeire, however, emphasized that PPE which the department had distributed to healthcare workers passed through regulatory standards.
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