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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Port body rallies behind Martinez; CA stops ombud suspension order
The Cebu Port Commission still has confidence in Cebu Port Authority (CPA) General Manager Mariano C.J. Martinez in effectively managing the ports.
The commission, CPA’s policy-making body, came up with the resolution, as the Court of Appeals (CA) gave Martinez a reprieve.
The CA’s 18th Division has restrained the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas from enforcing its order suspending Martinez for six months over the complaints filed by some CPA personnel.
In a resolution promulgated last June 6, the CA also ordered Visayas Deputy Ombudsman Primo C. Miro, and Jesse Guillermo, CPA Employees Union president, to answer the petition for Martinez within 10 days upon receipt of a copy.
The commission passed its resolution a few days after the anti-graft office ordered Martinez’s suspension from service for six months while the case against him filed by some CPA employees is still under investigation.
The commission is composed of alternate chairman Oscar Sevilla, Martinez, and Commissioners Alfonso Allere, Carlos Co, Ramon Villordon Jr., Hever Bascon and Tomas Riveral.
Suspension
The anti-graft office suspended Martinez in connection with Guillermo’s complaint that he and two of his colleagues at CPA were used by Martinez in renovating his ancestral house in Lahug, Cebu City and in bringing his (Martinez’s) children to school.
Martinez then filed a petition for certiorari with prayer for issuance of a temporary restraining order and writ of preliminary injunction.
The CA then directed Miro and Guillermo to file their comments, within 10 days, on Martinez’s motion and to show cause why the injunctive relief sought should not granted.
Justice Pampio Abarintos and concurred by Executive Justice Mercedes Gozo-Dadole and Associate Justice Ramon M. Bato Jr. (EOB)
(June 9, 2005 issue)
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