![]() The CHR need not continue using the dilapidated vehicles since it had acquired some new vehicles, the COA said. The audit body said repairs done in 2018 cost P1.56 million, 66 percent higher than the P960,000 in 2017. In its report, the COA said 14 vehicles had already exceeded the 30-percent allowable repairs stated in COA Circular No. The oldest vehicle is a Toyota FX Tamaraw. The Inquirer was allowed to see the vehicles at the CHR motorpool in its office in Quezon City.Īmong the new vehicles is a Mitsubishi Expander. “The COA observation helped us,” he said. Gascon said that in the past 21 years the CHR had to maintain whatever vehicles it had to continue its operations, particularly in the field offices. He said this was the “first opportunity” of the human rights body to buy new vehicles since 1997. ![]() ![]() “Actually, the purchases were in process of procurement last year as soon as provision for new vehicles was provided in the 2018 (national) budget,” he said in a text message to the Inquirer. Gascon said the CHR received the first batch of vehicles in November 2018. ![]()
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