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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
News on Yaranon's suspension misinformation: Quilala
REPORTS on Baguio Mayor Braulio Yaranon's suspension were misinformation as there were no documents to support it, said Secretary to the Mayor Rabindranath Quilala.
Quilala made the clarification after Jadewell president Rogelio Tan filed before the Office of the President an urgent manifestation informing the President of Quilala's announcement in an interview with a local radio station that Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita signed the mayor's suspension order.
Quilala, in his interview with Precy Mangibat of Bombo Radyo-Baguio, revealed that the "suspension" got "stopped" by Secretary Silvestre Afable.
But a few weeks after that interview, Quilala said it was a misinformation on their part and of a certain Gen. Florencio Fianza.
He explained that at the time of the interview, he or the mayor never met Sec. Ermita and that it was Fianza who relayed the information to the former on the mayor's suspension.
Quilala said it was only when Ermita himself spoke to the mayor that he learned that a suspension order "does not exist." He added that Jadewell's latest complaint is still within the legal department of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Last year, Jadewell filed complaints of culpable violation of the constitution, dishonesty, oppression, misconduct and abuse of authority against Yaranon for his issuance of notices to the public not to pay their parking fees.
Meanwhile, Tan asked that Quilala's taped interview be included in the official records of the complaints they filed. "It is clearly evident that respondent (Yaranon), through his minions, is subverting the integrity of the instant proceedings, an act which makes it imperative for the respondent to be now suspended." (RO)
(March 23, 2005 issue)
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