Considering what it has to do, it makes so much sense of the Office of the Ombudsman hires more people.
“At the 3rd Ombudsman Integrity Lecture Series at the Asian Development Bank on Monday, Jan 13, former Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo said that the Office of the Ombudsman is not winning the war against graft and corruption,” reports Jun Ramirez in the Manila Bulletin.
Marcelo said that while current Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has been making a great stride in fighting the menace, the agency is held back by the fact that the agency has less than 100 fact-finding investigators.
Moreover, there’s also a lack of justices at the Sandiganbayan to hear the cases.
Marcelo suggested that “the anti-graft court should be expanded via the creation of more divisions to speed up the deliberation of cases.” He also said that the agency should hire an additional 2,000 probers to speed up the gathering of evidence and the eventual prosecution of the suspects before the courts.
Photo from the Office of the Ombudsman website
