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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Five officials of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) who were suspended for three months were back in their posts.
They were Ceneco president Arnel Lapore and directors Paul Lizares, Joyce Martha Cuenca, Vicente Tan, and Robert Javellana.
They returned on Sept. 21. They attended their first Board meeting on Sept. 23, Lapore said.
They discussed what work they have left undone, including financial matters and the cooperative’s programs, he said.
At the time they were serving suspension, two directors were left: Ike Carbon and Jojit Yap.
Lapore said they will no longer intervene in matters Carbon and Yap already agreed on.
“I don’t want to create any issue. We will have to move on,” he stressed.
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) suspended Lapore and the four others in light of an administrative complaint Ceneco general manager Sulpicio Lagarde Jr. filed against them in May 2015.
Lagarde claimed the officials illegally dismissed him.
Then directors Michael Maravilla and Zenaida Lacson were suspended, too, but are no longer part of Ceneco at present.
According to Lapore, the motion for reconsideration they filed against the NEA decision remains pending at the agency.
Those who signed the decision — administrators Jose Raymund Acol, Jose Victor Lobrigo, Eugene Tan, Victor Chiong, and Edita Bueno — had only nine days to peruse the motion before their removal from office, said Lapore.
All appointees of former president Benigno Aquino III, they were replaced at the NEA Board of Administrators when President Rodrigo Duterte took over./PN
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