Commission on Audit chairman Gamaliel Cordoba, in addition to resolving the backlogs of 4,000 appeals and petitions, has to expurgate the commission from the effects of the morally harmful and erroneous lies of the foremost adviser of President Noynoy Aquino, Heidi Mendoza.

In deference to the spirit of Advent, souls are imploring her to say mea culpa for persuading the President by crying to the crowd and performing theatrical antics that led to the dismissal of Special Prosecutor Wendel Sulit for signing the plea-bargaining agreement.

Solid, visible, and incontrovertible proof of Heidi's magic over Noynoy was his letter to Ma. Remedios Baby Bueno Coady, chairperson of the Ways and Means Committee of the Women's Rights Movement of the Philippines, a non-government organization.

"I hope this letter finds you well, and I thank you for your support and encouragement. Indeed I share your and many of our countrymen's convictions that CoA Commissioner Heidi L. Mendoza is one of the people who has steadily helped us regain our footing on the straight and righteous path. She sets the example to many of us Filipinos to be part of the solution to the problems we have inherited, and to secure a future of equitable progress for our nation."

The ousted SP Wendel Sulit filed an earlier petition questioning the administrative proceedings against her before the Office of the President, which was junked by the eighth division of the Court of Appeals in August 2013.

Upon careful study and assessment of the case, vis-a-vis the evidence of the prosecution, it was an honest and sincere assessment that the PBA was in the best interest of the State.

Wendel Sulit never gave any undue advantage to the accused Garcia. The truth of the matter was that all publicity and media blitz including the theatrical antics of Heidi was intended to hide the real picture that the administration of former Ombudsman Marcelo failed to conduct a complete investigation, failed to gather the required evidence, and filed a case merely based on their personal belief, conclusions and assumptions without any concrete evidence to support the same during the trial of the case.

In December 2016, the Court of Appeals ordered the reinstatement of Wendel Sulit to her post as special prosecutor of the Office of the Ombudsman, three years after her removal for approving the plea-bargaining deal in the plunder case involving retired military comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia in 2010.

The appellate court turned down the findings of the OP that Sulit's approval of the plea-bargaining agreement with Garcia was unlawful. The CA held the Palace's administrative penalty on Sulit and the review of her action was actually an encroachment of the judicial power of the anti-graft court.

After reinstatement, Wendel Sulit was granted entitlement to full monetary compensation as Special Prosecutor of the Office of the Ombudsman, as if nothing happened to her during the seven-year term.

If Chairman Cordoba wants to get elected into the United Nations Board of Audit, he should expurgate CoA of the morally harmful and erroneous deviations that Heidi Mendoza and her tandem injected into the Citizen Participatory Audit, and the audit process, in the styles that were purely their own, different from what's in accordance with the principles of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions and the United Nations Board of Audit.

CoA has failed to get elected into the UN audit body since 2010, because of the failure of the Commission Proper to observe international norms. If it ever desires to repeat the success of Chairman Francisco Tantuico, who won a seat in the UN audit body in 1983; and Chairman Celso Gangan who also won the coveted seat in 1992, I shall tell you in the next episode what more must be expurgated from CoA.

(To be continued)