NHA suspends 20 contractors, employees over housing mess
Updated May 30, 2018, 7:17 AM
By Ben Rosario
The National Housing Authority (NHA) has suspended 20 contractors and placed under preventive suspension a number of its executives and employees in connection with the on-going investigation into irregularities that attended the housing projects for victims of supertyphoon Yolanda and the Zamboanga City siege of 2013.
But Negros Oriental Rep. Albee Benitez, chairman of the House Committee on Housing and Urban Development said the action taken by General Manager Marcelino Escalada only deserves“half commendation.” The other half, Benitez said will come when the culprits are criminally charged and blacklisted from all government housing projects.