But Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) general manager Jose Angel Honrado will probably never resign.
“After the laglag-bala or tanim -bala (bullet-planting) modus, MIAA chief Honrado is facing yet another controversy, this time over an alleged questionable planned procurement of a PHP486-million closed-circuit television (CCTV) and communications system,” reports Ina Reformina on ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report noted: “Honrado, members of the MIAA Bids & Awards Committee (BAC), its technical working group (TWG), its technical evaluation committee, and project consultant Rizaldy Reblora, were charged with grave misconduct along with two alleged favored firms before the Office of the Ombudsman.”
The report explained that “the charges are on top of separate criminal and graft charges before the Ombudsman against Honrado, Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya, other MIAA and Ninoy Aquino International Airport officials, and officers from the Philippine National Police-Aviation Security Group (PNP-AVSEGROUP) and Office of Transportation Security (OTS), for the laglag-bala modus.”
In the latest MIAA controversy, the Ombudsman is checking the complaint of the people behind a joint venture that qualified for the bidding (later declared as failed). They have “alleged that Honrado and other respondents decided to resort to a negotiated procurement for the airport communications and surveillance project.” The complainant pointed out that this was done “despite the fact that no two failed biddings took place as mandated by Republic Act No. 9184 or the Procurement Law.”
