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Photographs left by murdered whistleblower Niruh Kyle Antatico contradict the declare of Nationwide Irrigation Administration chief Eduardo Guillen
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Nationwide Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Eduardo Guillen rejected the claims of murdered whistleblower Niruh Kyle Antatico, who had accused the company’s regional workplace of signing off on a P75-million “ghost challenge” in Maguing, Lanao del Sur.
Antatico, 40, a former authorized researcher on the NIA, had taken to Fb to put up images, paperwork, and accusations that the regional workplace permitted and paid for a questionable challenge. Days later, on October 10, he was gunned down in Cagayan de Oro Metropolis.
In an interview on DZBB on Wednesday, October 15, Guillen acknowledged that Antatico’s grievance reached his workplace however stated “validation confirmed the challenge is present and useful.”
He stated the construction in query was an irrigation canal, not a farm-to-market street — the latter, he stated, was beneath the Division of Agriculture.
Antatico, in his social media put up, by no means talked about any street challenge in Maguing.
Guillen stated the challenge started in 2020 and was accomplished in April 2021, in the course of the Duterte administration. However a part of a doc Antatico had posted on October 2 acknowledged that it began on January 1, 2020, and was accomplished on December 31, 2022.
“Mahirap mag-ghost challenge sa NIA (It’s tough to have a ghost challenge within the NIA),” Guillen stated in the course of the radio interview.
He stated each the municipal engineer and the native irrigators’ affiliation took half in validating the challenge. However Antatico claimed in his social media put up that it was the president of the identical irrigators’ affiliation who raised the grievance concerning the Maguing challenge.
Antatico had claimed that regional NIA officers dismissed issues by citing a Fee on Audit report that supposedly raised no points concerning the challenge. In his Fb posts, he alleged the inspection revealed eroded slopes, damaged concrete, and incomplete canals in a non-farming space.
Rappler sought remark from NIA-Northern Mindanao Regional Supervisor Larry Franada at his workplace on Wednesday morning however was advised he was within the area, and nobody may say the place he was precisely. His assistant had not too long ago died, and the regional workplace’s public relations officer was unavailable.
The images Antatico left behind — the cracked concrete, the silty channels, the irrigation canals that cease midstream — advised a unique story from the one Guillen insisted was true.
Beneath are among the images posted by Antatico on Fb.
– Rappler.com
