BACOLOD City Executive Assistant Celestino Guara, cluster head on peace and order and police matters, said he is conducting an investigation on the alleged involvement of the job order casual in business permit fixing.
Guara said Wednesday, January 10, they received a complaint from Rosa Maria Torres, an eatery operator, that she cannot process her business permit because Ladelle Montaño, a job order worker, failed to process her permit in 2017.
In her letter to Samuel Montoyo, member of Anti-Red Tape Act Core Team, Torres said that in 2017, she gave P3,000 to Montaño to process her permit.
She said that in October 2017, she followed up her permit, but Montaño informed her that she lost the P3,000.
“On November 30, 2017, I went to Bacolod Government Center and asked her to finish processing my permit, but until now she has not called me,” Torres added.
Guara said they have called the attention of Montaño, a tracker staff of Councilor Ricardo Tan.
Montaño told Guara that the complainant failed to submit all the requirements.
Guara said they are waiting for the complainant to file estafa charges against Montaño.
He said that in 2017, a resident of Kabankalan City filed a complaint against Montaño for failure to process her birth certificate during the time she was assigned at the Civil Registrar’s Office.
“This is a warning to all the city employees not to engage in fixing of business permit or other government transactions,” Guara said.
He told businessmen not to deal with fixers because it is easy now to process a business permit.
Guara assigned four Public Order Safety Office guards at the Business One-Stop-Shop to monitor the fixers.
Tan said he already talked to Montaño and she admitted that such incident happened in previous years.
“I will not tolerate this incident and I will order my staff to conduct further investigation and to submit the report within a week,” he added.
Montaño worked as his staff for almost four months, Tan said.