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COMPLAINT AFFIDAVIT
I, MANUEL P. MEJORADA, Filipino, of legal age, married, and
a resident

of No. 2 Kasoy St.,

Block 11, Villa San Lorenzo Subdivision,Lapaz,5000 Iloilo City, after having been duly sworr
in accordance with law, do hereby depose and state:
1.

This affidavit is executed to establish the grounds for an ADMINISTRATM complaint

against

EDILBERTO TAYAO, Regional Director, Department of Public Works

and

Highways (DPWH), Region VI, with mailing address at Fort San Pedro, 5000 Iloilo City for violation of the Anti-Red Tape Act, or Republic Act No. 9485, in the performance
his official duties.
2.

of

The offenses were committed when respondent TAYAO deliberately refused to fumish
and provide me with certified copies of

official documents in the procurement of three

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contracts for the implementation of infrastructure projects in Iloilo City which were

directly undertaken by the DPWH Regional Office which he heads.

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On January 28,2014,I wrote addressed respondent TAYAO in separate letters requesting

for these documents for the following projects:

a. b.

The Iloilo Bridge widening project; The Iloilo City Convention Center; (or known as the "Diversion

c. Road widening of the Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue

Road").

4. Copies of these letters, which were dispatched by Registered Mail, are appended as

Annexes

"A" for the Iloilo Bridge project, "B" for the Iloilo City Convention Center

project and'oC" for the road widening of the Benigno Aquino Jr. Ave.
5.

The registry receipts issued by the Philippine Postal Office are also appended as Annexes "D","r" and o'F" for the above-enumerated projects in the same order.

6.

After a lapse of time, and not having received

reply from respondent TAYAO,

dispatched another letter dated February 19,2014 reminding him about my request (copy

of the letter appended as Annex

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The postal retum card which acknowledged delivery and rpceipt of the letter dated

February l9,20l4is attached

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7. Until this time, respondent TAYAO has failed to acknowledge,

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much less reply and

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8.

Such failure of respondent

TAYAO is deliberate

as he apparently shuns any attempt

to

dig into the transactions of the DPWH Regional Office No. 6 in the procurement and implementation of various infrastructure projects which reek of comrption.
9. This refusal to act on these THREE (3) legitimate requests from the public is a violation

of Republic Act No. 9485, Section 11, paragraph (a), subparagraph (2), which states "Failure to act on an application andlor request or failure to refer back to the client a
request which cannot be acted upon due to lack of requirement/s within the prescribed

period."
10. Such actions constitute THREE (3) counts of violations of the afore-cited provision

of

Republic Act No. 9485.

11.

I am executing this affidavit to attest to the truthfirlness of the foregoing

subparagraph (2) of Republic

statements to

establish the grounds for THREE (3) counts of violation of Section 11, paragraph (a),

ActNo. 9485 against

respondent EDILBERTO

TAYAO.

IN WITNESS THERETO,I hereby affix my signature tfri,

City, Philippines.

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SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this Philippines.

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