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BY RANIE AZUE
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BACOLOD City – The Office of the Ombudsman released an order requesting Civil Service Commission (CSC) Region 6 head Atty. Rodolfo Encajonado and three others to submit their counter-affidavits regarding a complaint filed against them.
The Ombudsman – having cited that it has enough basis to proceed with a criminal and administrative investigation – issued the Sept. 11 order to Encajonado, CSC employee Erna Elizan, and Talisay City Human Resource Office staffers Gemma Perolino and Arlene Firmiza.
Encajonado, Elizan, Perolino, and Firmiza have ten days to file their replies upon receiving the order.
The Ombudsman docketed their criminal and administrative cases as OMB-V-C-17-0349 and OMB-V-A-0630, respectively.
Veronica Sucaldito lodged the complaint against Encajonado, Elizan, Perolino, and Firmiza before the Ombudsman last August.
Sucaldito accused them of violating Section 3 (e) of Republic Act 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, in relation to Article 171 Revised Penal Code for falsification by public officer, employee or notary or ecclesiastic minister and for grave misconduct.
Sucaldito is among the 15 regular employees of Talisay City local government who were dismissed from office in July last year, when Neil Lizares became city mayor.
The city government under Lizares’ administration claimed that the regularization of the 15 workers was illegal as it violated the ban on promotion/transfer of employees during election period.
The CSC affirmed the dismissal of the 15 employees, who later appealed before the CSC central office in Metro Manila./PN
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