Suspended Cebu Metropolis Mayor Michael Rama (left) and Appearing Cebu Metropolis Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia. [CDN Digital file photos]
CEBU CITY, Philippines —Appearing Cebu Metropolis Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia debunks claims of being the one who’ve learn the Ombudsman’s determination on the order of dismissal of the suspended Mayor Michael Rama in a gathering with barangay officers within the south district.
“That’s purely chismis. Di ko mo remark ana. I by no means stated something to that impact,” Garcia stated in a fast interview on Thursday, Sept. 12.
(That’s purely gossip. I cannot touch upon that. I by no means stated something to that impact.)
Earlier, Rama’s camp referred to as out some Metropolis Corridor officers for apparently studying out loud the choice of the Ombudsman over the nepotism fees in opposition to him throughout a gathering with barangay officers within the south district final September 6.
In a press release they criticized stories that the state’s anti-graft physique had allegedly meted a penalty of dismissal from public workplace over the nepotism case filed in opposition to the suspended mayor.
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Rama’s authorized workforce referred to as for a press convention on Sept. 10, Tuesday, to tell the general public that they had been already addressing the difficulty.
On Tuesday, Lawyer Collin Rosell stated “the order of dismissal of Mayor Rama was personally and brazenly relayed with a declare to have learn the stated determination in the course of the assembly of barangay officers referred to as by the performing Mayor (Raymond Garcia) final Friday evening.”
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For his half, Garcia didn’t deny that he referred to as for a gathering with the barangay officers, however it was solely to ask for issues associated to the Cebu Metropolis Authorities.
“Sige man ko’g patawag og assembly sa mga barangay officers. That’s no secret man. Sige man ko’g patawag as a result of syempre as mayor, I’ve to ask kung unsa’y ilang mga concern, mga problema, ilang mga initiatives, ilang mga applications nga kinahanglan sa Metropolis of Cebu. So I at all times name on the barangays for conferences anyplace. It may be in Metropolis Corridor, it may be outdoors [the City Hall],” he stated.
(I usually name for a gathering with the barangay officers. That’s not a secret. I usually name for a gathering as a result of, in fact, as a mayor, I’ve to ask what are their considerations, their issues, their initiatives, their applications that the Metropolis of Cebu want. So I at all times name on the barangays for conferences anyplace. It might in Metropolis Corridor, it may be outdoors [the city hall].)
Final Tuesday, Rosell was additionally requested if performing Mayor Garcia was behind the unfold of those rumors, however he stated it could be greatest to ask those that had been within the assembly.
Rama’s camp stated they already named the individual involved within the Movement for Clarification that they filed earlier than the Ombudsman on Monday.
Of their movement, they stated in addition they requested the Ombudsman to shed gentle as to how and why that individual claimed to have already learn the choice and why he had entry to it.
In 2023, a involved citizen named Jonel Saceda, with an alias “Inday Josa Chongbian Osmeña,” filed complaints for nepotism, grave misconduct, and graft and corruption in opposition to Rama after he employed two of his spouse’s brother-in-laws as informal workers at Metropolis Corridor.
Final Could, the Ombudsman additionally ordered to position Rama and 7 different Metropolis Corridor officers beneath a six-month preventive suspension for allegedly failing to pay the salaries of workers who had been reassigned from the Metropolis Assessors Workplace to different jobs. | with stories from Morexette Marie Erram, Senior Multimedia Reporter
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