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By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

Amid attempts by former OIC Governor Victor Dela Serna to question finances of City Mayor Dan Lim, the city chief executive yesterday asked the Ombudsman to investigate him.

Perhaps an unprecedented move of a public official, the mayor revealed during his weekly "Mayor's Report" yesterday that he wrote Deputy Ombudsman for the

Visayas Pelagio Apostol to initiate an investigation and determine if he committed violations regarding abuse of discretion and graft and corruption.

According to Dela Serna, "the amount of P97.6 million is just too big to be left to the discretion of any public official of the city… which has an annual budget of P304 million."

The mayor openly dared Dela Serna yesterday to file a case and prove it in court instead of engaging in a "fishing expedition".

Dela Serna has asked City Budget Officer Rosemarie Palma copies of the "Summary of Budget and Expenditure" for the year 2006, specifically what was incurred by the mayor.

In his letter to the Ombudsman, Lim called Dela Serna's inquiries as a form of "harassment" to humiliate him by way of a public trial.