BACOLOD City – The village chief of Barangay Tangub suspended over alleged irregularities faces two more complaints before the Office of the President and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).
Council members of then Punong Barangay Noli Villarosa filed the complaints against him and four other barangay officials namely Teresa Domadiego, barangay treasurer; Reystine Joy Cabalhin, secretary; and then Kagawad Luz Atienza, currently the officer-in-charge of the barangay; and Kagawad Jose Ray Pendon, chairperson of the committee on finance.
The complainants were kagawads Katrina Joan Sonota, Dindo Amadeo, Eduardo Lavadia, Sally Canada, and Jose Montano.
The charges were for alleged misappropriation of barangay funds, falsification of barangay records, perjury, corruption, and nepotism.
The complainants also claimed that Social Amelioration Program (SAP) funds were distributed to “unqualified persons”.
Their other allegations were:
* “retention and employment” of supposed barangay employees who “do not report nor appear for work” in the barangay but compensated
* unaccounted rental collection
* failure to remit any such collected amount since January 2020
* concealment of records
* refusal to act and willful non-action as regard illegal structures contrary to a circular of the Department of Interior and Local Government
Villarosa, for his part, denied there were ghost employees in the barangay council.
“I’m willing to face their complaints,” Villarosa stressed.
Villarosa is serving a six-month suspension – from September 2020 to March. He was charged before the Office of the Ombudsman by the DILG for alleged irregularities involving the implementation of the first tranche of the SAP./PN
