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Newly installed Speaker Ibrahim Ibay, at 34, becomes the youngest ever to become the ARMM’s third highest official.


Ibay, who hails from the first district of Maguindanao, replaced Ombra Datumanong, brother of Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong.


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In an order released yesterday, Datumanong said the relieved personnel, who are all based at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s central office in Manila, were found "to have either benefited from a reimbursement scheme or failed to perform their duty in preventing such irregularity."


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                    [Title] => DPWH chief to fire personnel linked to vehicle repair scandal
                    [Summary] => First, sky-high car repairs. Now, exhorbitant photocopying services.


Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong said yesterday that he will fire officials and employees linked to the multi-billion peso vehicle repair scandal even as he announced another anomaly in the department’s photocopying machines rental contracts.


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The 59 cars were estimated to be worth more than P29 billion.


This finding was contained in a Commission on Audit’s economic analysis report in 2000, but apparently ignored last year, thus further ballooning the department’s repair bills to P36 million.


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The anomaly, involving a car with license plate PAK 404, was uncovered in the course of the six-month probe ordered by Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong.


Repair on another car, with license plate PGG 946, reportedly cost the DPWH another P500,000. The vehicle spent the entire 2001 going in and out of a contractor’s repair shop.


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Datumanong said all public works directors must coordinate and share heavy equipment with local governments to ensure the project’s completion  and avoid any inconvenience to the public during the holidays.


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                    [Title] => Government to pursue economic ties with Muslim nations
                    [Summary] => Notwithstanding the tension triggered by the US terrorist attacks, President Arroyo has affirmed the government’s intentions to further develop the growing economic ties with Muslim countries in Asia, during a recent visit to Mindanao. 


During her visit, the President also inaugurated the P3.4-billion Malitubog-Maridagao irrigation project in Carmen, North Cotabato,  where she expressed her continued trust for her only Muslim Cabinet member, Public Works and Highways Secretary Simeon Datumanong.


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PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS SECRETARY SIMEON DATUMANONG

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Newly installed Speaker Ibrahim Ibay, at 34, becomes the youngest ever to become the ARMM’s third highest official.


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