PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III is looking for a replacement for Commission on Audit Chairman Reynaldo Villar whose term ends on Feb. 2, Malacañang said Tuesday.

“We are looking for competent people with integrity to occupy positions in COA,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.

A clean record was a must for the next head of the audit agency, which had been “a magnet of controversy,” he said.

Lacierda said Malacañang would talk to Villar to resolve the questions over his term. Villar had earlier said his term would end in 2015, a claim Lacierda disputed.

“It was expressly stated in his appointment that it will expire on Feb. 2, 2011,” Lacierda said.

Villar was appointed commissioner on Feb. 7, 2004 and elevated to chairman on April 15, 2008.

According to government sources, Villar will be replaced by long-serving Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, who in turn will be replaced by former Ambassador to Washington Albert del Rosario.

Lacierda said former state auditor Heidi Mendoza, who had told a congressional hearing that “the audit system does not work,” was not offered the job, although the President had invited her to rejoin the government.

Mr. Aquino had earlier offered Mendoza the protection of his own Presidential Security Group after she had expressed fears for her life following her expose.

Mendoza said her family was inclined to accept the offer after she had received death threats over her testimony on the plunder case against former military comptroller Carlos Garcia ~ Joyce Pangco Pañares

News source: Manila Standard Today
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