A CAPITOL department head is accused of constructing a viewing deck at the back of her house which she does not own and is not covered by proper documents.
The house of Alma Sibonga, head of the Provincial Assessor’s Office, is on a province-owned lot in barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City which she bought years back.
The viewing deck that she had constructed reportedly sits on a lot owned by the National Power Corporation (NPC).
Paul Entera, provincial real estate administrator, said that aside from the fact that Sibonga does not own the lot where the viewing deck is constructed on, she also needs an approval from the Commission on Audit and an authority from the Provincial Board if she will construct an extension of her house because her lot is province-owned.
Sibonga is one of the Capitol employees who was given priority by the Cebu provincial government to purchase the 75-square-meter province-owned lot.
Entera cited Executive Order No. 002 series of 2014 states that doing extension without the authority of the PB or the Governor and COA is illegal.
Sibonga admitted that her husband, Edgar Sibonga, an engineer and a Capitol consultant, constructed the viewing deck in 2011.
But they stopped the construction as they have yet to secure the proper documents for it.