FOR the nth time, the Commission on Audit has hit another batch of public officials with its now familiar and frequently issued order to return to the treasury funds that were illegally distributed to them as bonuses, and which the commission has officially disallowed.

The latest group to be slapped with a COA order are Iloilo provincial officials and workers, including dismissed city mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, who were given, or gave themselves, P46 million in bonuses that were taken from unspent calamity funds and a budget surplus in 2009.

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