| Richard Garcia, a witness at Senate hearings on the jueteng payola expose, makes a tearful apology to President Arroyo. At a press conference yesterday, Garcia, self-confessed jueteng bagman, said the opposition had used him to link President Arroyo and her family to the gambling racket.(Afp photo) |
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Those sardines would have been a welcome meal on a poor man’s table.
With that said, the anti-graft office yesterday ordered the dismissal of a Cebu City Hall official it found guilty of gross neglect and grave misconduct, for allowing sacks of canned sardines to rot inside a stockroom in Labangon and for trying to cover this up by burying the goods in July last year.
However, the anti-graft office, in its June 30, 2005 administrative decision, did not void Department of Social Welfare Services (DSWS) chief Nida Sistona’s eligibility to hold another government post.
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