MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has acquitted eight barangay officials in connection with supposed irregularities in the purchase of a laptop computer for the town nine years ago. In its decision dated February 28 and published online on Wednesday, the anti-graft court's Seventh Division reversed the ruling of the Jordan, Guimaras Regional Trial Court Branch 65 and acquitted Rodolfo Galila, Mae Isabel Arevalo, Jose Henry Parcon III, Maribeth Galgo, Generoso Galgo, Nelly Badilla, Letecia Gedaca and Girlie Gaquit. Galila, the barangay chairperson, and the other accused who are concurrently members of the council and Bids and Awards and Committee of Barangay Poblacion in Nueva Valencia town had been charged with the awarding a 2013 contract for the purchase of a laptop worth PHP33,929 from Lawrence Glass and Aluminum Construction Enterprises. The charge sheet said the transaction caused undue injury to the government and gave unwarranted benefit to the supplier which was not an eligible bi