Mayor admits receiving complaint

Friday, January 20, 2012

CAGAYAN de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano admitted on Thursday he had obtained a copy of the administrative complaint fil d against him by a group called Save CDO Movement.

Emano said it was Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III who brought the documents and filed it in Malacañang.

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“That’s their right because we cannot convince them to join us,” he said in an interview over RMN-dxCC.

CAGAYAN DE ORO. Kagay-anons line up to affix their signatures for the recall of Mayor Vicente Emano during a forum on Friday. The signature campaign is being spearheaded by a group called Save CDO Movement. (Joey P. Nacalaban)

The mayor also admitted having sent “spies” to the gatherings of Save CDO Movement, whose members are doing daily protest starting January 14 at the Kiosko Kagawasan in Divisoria reportedly to gather signatures for a recall election in Cagayan de Oro.

However, Emano denied having received the group’s request to use the kiosk in Divisoria for their daily protest.

The mayor urged the group to directly bring its request to him for approval.

Emano assured that he will “not disallow such activity in the city, much more the use of the kiosk.”

Marlon Tabac, a member of Save CDO Movement, however, denied it was Pimentel who brought and filed the complaint in Malacañang.

Tabac said the complaint was filed only last January 9, 2012 at the regional office of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

He said Pimentel was in Cagayan de Oro last January 6 to distribute relief goods to the victims of the flash flood in Sitios Pasil and Pita in Barangay Kauswagan.

“On the same day, Pimentel proceeded to Butuan City and then flew back to Manila,” Tabac said.

He said Emano’s claims were “all lies and have no basis at all.”

“What he said were all lies and whoever were his spies, he should terminate them because they have given him wrong information,” Tabac added.

Earlier, the group filed an administrative complaint against Emano for allegedly doing nothing to protect the people from the flash flood.

The group alleged the complaint is already in Malacañang and a suspension against Emano would be out soon.