Nograles has audit report on Duterte James Bond fund

Media helping themselves into Duterte peace and order fund

Some members of the Davao City media could find themselves in trouble some day when Speaker Prospero Nograles makes public an audit report on Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s peace and order funds.

Some media men, city hall officials, councilors, policemen and ward leaders were listed in the report, according to Nograles last week.

The Speaker described the audit findings as “explosive that could drag many personalities to serious legal problems.”

But Nograles is not about to bare the list of those who shared in the P450 million annual peace and order fund.

I will still have to study the initial audit findings, said Nograles in media reports.

Nograles also twitted Duterte on his statement on television that the peace and order fund are spent wisely for the needy.

Is distribution of rice, sardines and noodles part of the peace and order campaign? asked Nograles.

The audit on the mayor’s fund reportedly was instigated by Nograles who is challenging Vice Mayor Sara Duterte, daughter of the last-termer Mayor Duterte, in the mayoral contest in May 2010.

Nograles has already engineered the preventive suspension by the Ombudsman of three top City Hall officials for the demolition of a P2 million park named after his father, Erico, in Miniforest, Quezon Blvd.

While city administrator Wendel Avisado, city engineer Jose Gestuveo and canal maintenance chief Yussof Jimlani have secured a TRO from the Court Appeals, Duterte was included in one of three cases in connection with the demolition that Nograles filed, and may also be suspended.