The Office of the Ombudsman lifted the preventive suspension against 32 Bohol officials amid the investigation into the construction and operation of the controversial Captain’s Peak Garden and Resort inside the Chocolate Hills protected area.
“In the interest of justice and fair play and consonant to this Office’s previous Consolidated Order dated July 31, the preventive suspension of the following respondents is hereby lifted,” its 25-page consolidated order read.
The Ombudsman lifted the suspension on five mayors, village captains, and regional directors of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).
The provincial and local government officials of Sagbayan, Bohol, were charged with grave misconduct and gross neglect of duty for supposedly tolerating the resort’s operation and expansion.
The Ombudsman placed Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado and 68 other officials under preventive suspension in May. Aumentado, however, maintained his innocence and was reinstated to his post in August.
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