Former acting Makati Mayor Romulo Peña Jr. had padded the number of city employees by over 1,300 during his term, among them his relatives and relatives of his political allies, according to a city official.

The Peña administration also did not open to public bidding some half a billion pesos in contracts and merely ex-tended them, Michael Camiña, lawyer and city legal officer, said on Thursday.

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