The Land Transportation Office (LTO) said that only around 200 of the 756 units of breath analyzers brought in the past administrations can be repaired for use by its personnel.
LTO Assistant Secretary Attorney Vigor Mendoza II said this was discovered after an inventory of the devices purchased to implement the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act of 2013.
“The first batch of 150 units were bought in 2015 for P10.2 million while the rest of the more than 600 units were bought in 2017 for more than P38,000 per unit. The total cost of these two procurements for a total of 756 units of breath analyzers were P33.8 million,” Mendoza said in a statement.
He said the LTO is assessing whether to repair the broken units or buy new ones.
“What we are doing now is to save more than 200 units by looking for the shop that could do the job,” he said.
The issue on the defective breath analyzers was recently raised by Senator Raffy Tulfo in a Senate hearing.—Jiselle Anne Casucian/LDF, GMA Integrated News
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