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Friday, August 26, 2005
Mayor wants town councilor expelled
By Albert B. Lacanlale and Joel P. Mapiles
SAN FERNANDO CITY -- Sta. Ana Mayor Francisco Gaddi has asked the Provincial Board (PB) of Pampanga to expel from office a lady councilor in his town following a civil service order disqualifying her from government work.
Caddi said the Civil Service Commission (CSC) in its decision had also called for Erlinda L. Lapuz's "perpetual disqualification" from government employment.
The mayor forwarded his complaint to the PB committee on justice chaired by Board Member Johnny Quiambao, the same committee handling the mayor's administrative complaint against Vice Mayor Mediatrix Nolasco and some members of the Municipal Council.
He said Lapuz, who was appointed on a permanent status as Municipal Council secretary on May 4, 2000 by then Vice Mayor Angel T. Mataga, was found to have allegedly doctored public documents to secure the post.
Caddi said Lapuz submitted her personal data sheet on May 2, 2000 in line with her employment as council secretary. Her personal data indicated she passed the Career Service Professional Examination on March 26, 2000 with a rating of 82.75 percent.
She provided as supporting document a copy of her certificate of eligibility dated April 19, 2000.
But Caddi said upon verification with the CSC central office, it was found out that Lapuz obtained a failed rating of 58.77 percent. This led to the disapproval of her appointment and the filing of an administrative case for dishonesty, grave misconduct and falsification of official documents, among others, against her in 2004.
The CSC, in its February 9, 2004 decision, said: "Erlinda L. Lapuz is hereby found guilty of the offenses of dishonesty, grave misconduct, falsification of official documents and conduct prejudicial of the best interest of the service for which penalty of dismissal from the service is imposed with the accessory penalties of forfeiture of retirement benefits, perpetual disqualification from reemployment in the government and barred from taking any civil service examination in the future, without prejudice to the filing of a criminal charge, if the evidence so warrants."
Lapuz denied falsifying the certificate of eligibility that she received after the examinations and submitted to the CSC upon her appointment as then Municipal Council secretary.
She said she does not have the capacity in any manner to generate or manufacture such kind of document, which only the CSC processes.
The councilor said the CSC had informed her that there was something wrong with the copy of eligibility that she received from their office because it showed that she passed when she really didn't.
Lapuz said that immediately after, she sought clarification with the CSC central office in Manila about her conflicting test result.
She described Gaddi's move to pin her down as political vendetta in view of her manifestation of support to Dominador Dizon, a mayoral candidate in the town who has a pending election protest against the mayor for "alleged cheating and irregularities in last year's mayoral elections."
She said the election protest is gaining ground because it is supported by the majority members of the Municipal Council.
Lapuz said she also joined majority members of the Municipal Council in questioning the alleged unliquidated cash advances of town officials and this caused her to get the ire of the mayor. (Sun.Star Pampanga/Sunnex)
(August 26, 2005 issue)
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