Tomas camp files raps against Rama, officials

TWO days before the elections, the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) trained its guns on Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and 11 City Hall officials and employees.

The BO-PK dominated Cebu City Council filed graft charges before the Ombudsman-Visayas for fasttracking approval of a road project without their approval.

The P50.4 million road project was part of the clearing and enbankment of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route in the South Road Properties (SRP).

BO-PK founder Rep. Tomas Osmena also filed two cases against Rama before the Comelec and the Ombudsman-Visayas for allegedly using city owned vehicles to “advance” his candidacy.

Others named respondents were Team Rama council candidates Albert Reformina and George Chang and Florito Carlo Dugaduga, Cebu City Public Information Officer (PIO) who is on leave to campaign for Rama.

Osmeña attached photos showing the red plate vehicles—a Toyota Innova and a Toyota Hilux–plastered with Team Rama campaign materials.

They were seen at barangay Day-as and at a Team Rama headquarters in barangay Camputhaw. A Toyoto Corolla Sedan bearing a red plate assigned to the PIO was supposedly “used by Dugaduga” to drive to Team Rama headquarters.

The road project complaint named as respondents Rafael Christopher Yap, chairman of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC); City Administrator Jose Marie Poblete and BAC members Dominic Diño, Eustaquio Cesa, Jr., Ester Concha, Alipio Bacalso.

Also included were Councilor Jose Daluz III, Rama’s assistant Nenita Fernandez; City Engineer Carmelita Kenneth Enriquez; Engineers Joel Reston and Yuri Sesican and Bernabe Gilbor of Supreme ABF Construction./Correspondent Jose Santino S. Bunachita