Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno. (File photo) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - With a string of administrative cases dismissed by the Court of Appeals (CA), incumbent City Mayor Oscar Moreno and his co-accused remain optimistic that they could hurdle the same charges being heard at the Sandiganbayan. The criminal cases, filed in 2016, stemmed from a complaint filed against Moreno, who was then the governor of Misamis Oriental when he ordered the rental of heavy equipment amounting to about PHP15 million between 2007 and 2012. In a statement Thursday, Moreno said he is planning on making a comeback to the province by running in the gubernatorial race in the 2022 elections. The accuser, engineer Antonio Nunez, alleged that Moreno and two members of the provincial bids and awards committee (PBAC) committed an irregularity when they approved the rental of heavy equipment through negotiated procurement and small-value purchases, which the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) said was a violation of Re
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