Employees of the Agrarian Undersecretary Felix Perry Villanueva, Finance Management Office (FMAO) officer-in-charge, stormed his office on Tuesday, to condemned the purported militarization of the department’s perimeter.

They pointed to Villanueva as the one who orchestrated the putting up of iron grills and building higher fences of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) building along the Quezon City Memorial Circle.

Villanueva, who was a former assistant secretary and now concurrent Bids and Awards Committee chairman of the Agrarian department, has been the subject of employee’s protest for almost three months now over some failed bidding of the department.

They cited that recently, DAR has returned about half a billion peso worth of funds to the National Treasury over the failed bidding on Agrarian Reform Communities Connectivity and Economic Support Services program, including the failed bidding on trucks, tractors and other farm implements.

They also accused Villanueva of favoring some contractors of the department. They claimed that he was once threatened by a lawmaker to be subjected to a congressional inquiry when he disqualified a supposed bidder in favor of his chosen bidder causing delay for the issuance of ‘notice of award’ and the project to pursue.

Villanueva is also implicated in another brouhaha over the engineering consultancy services for the department’s Mindanao Sustainable Settlement Area Development project for designating three independent evaluators composed of “technocrats” from various universities who were given wide scope, responsibility and power to approve and award projects.