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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
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KALIBO, Aklan – For six months Altavas will be under Acting Mayor Joly Solita while Confesor Inocencio III sits as acting vice mayor.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered them to take over the top posts in the local government while Mayor Denny “Bulldog” Refol Sr. serves a 180-day (six months) suspension.
Solita, a party mate of Refol, is the vice mayor, while Inocencio is the No. 1 Sangguniang Bayan member.
The Office of the Ombudsman suspended Refol after finding him guilty of disgraceful and immoral conduct over an affair with another woman not his wife.
While immediately executory, the Ombudsman order is appealable.
But the 59-year-old Refol failed to get a temporary restraining order, among other legal remedies, to stop his suspension.
DILG Undersecretary for Local Government Austere Panadero ordered Regional Director Anthony Nuyda to implement the suspension.
Nuyda in turn ordered Provincial Director John Ace Azarcon to serve the order.
Azarcon said he and DILG Region 6 legal officer Cedric Jaranilla served it around 4:55 p.m. on March 29.
Refol was not in office at the time. A copy of the suspension order was posted on his office, Azarcon said. There was no tension. The mayor’s supporters remained calm, the DILG official added.
Refol sought re-election to a third term in May 2016. (With Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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