Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla has ordered the preventive suspension of two former Land Transportation Office (LTO) chiefs over the continued use of an older information technology system that the Commission on Audit (COA) said resulted in P13.38 billion in computer fees charged to motorists from 2019 to 2025.
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is continuing to operate the Stradcom-developed LTO-IT System alongside the government-owned Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), despite a May 29 directive from the Office of the Ombudsman ordering the agency to immediately stop using the older platform.
Digital advocacy group Digital Pinoys has called on Dermalog to turn over the source code and other technical components of the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), saying recurring outages showed the need for the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to gain full operational control of the platform.
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has informed the Office of the Ombudsman that nationwide operations have been hampered by outages in the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), while ongoing legal disputes involving the system's contractor continue to complicate efforts to fully migrate and independently operate the platform.
The Office of the Ombudsman has directed the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to immediately stop using the LTO-IT system operated by Stradcom Corporation and fully migrate all transactions to the government-owned Land Transportation Management System (LTMS).
The country’s most luxurious cars — including two smuggled Bugatti Chirons — were registered not through the government’s new digital platform, but through an obsolete Land Transportation Office (LTO) system that should have been decommissioned two years ago, investigators have confirmed.
Sen. Grace Poe said the LTO is still plagued with the same old problems -- slow if not unserviceable portal, long lines during application or renewal of licenses or registration, backlogs in license plates and recently, close to 700,000 shortage in requirements as basic as plastic license cards.
