MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has acquitted four employees of a town in Cebu on charges of graft for failing to post invitations to bid online for a government supply contract to put up a school building. In its decision dated February 23 and released Thursday, the anti-graft court's Sixth Division acquitted Ronda municipal budget officer Thelma Landiza, municipal assistant treasurer Brigida Cabaron, clerk Frauline Requilme and utility worker Evelina Tan on charges of violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. The workers had been charged in 2017 along with Mayor Mariano Blanco III, and Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) chair Oscar Pilapil for failing to post the invitations to bid (ITBs) for a school building project in 2012 on the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) as required by Republic Act 9184 or the Government Procurement Act. Blanco and Pilapil died in 2018 and 2021 respectively, during the pendency of the 15 cases for irregularities in th