Bishop Pabillo
Bishop questions suspended npo execs stay in office
Bishop Pabillo
NPO Director Emmanuel Andaya and other officers have been dismissed from government service after the Office of the Ombudsman found him guilty of the administrative offense of grave misconduct.
In a letter addressed to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa,Jr., Bishop Broderick Pabillo, DD expressed concern over an information saying that “some officials of the NPO continue to retain their post(s) despite an order issued by the Office of the Ombudsman dismissing them from government service per OMB Case No. C-A-11-0227-E issued on July 2015.
Bishop Pabillo stated in his letter to Ochoa dated January 4, 2016, “We are very alarmed that there is something suspicious behind the administration’s continued refusal to implement the said OMB order.”
The NPO is designated at the official printing office of the official ballots for the National and Local Elections in May.
“We cannot help but wonder by dismissed government officials headed by Emmanuel C. Andaya will be managing the operations’” Bishop Pabillo added. “How can the citizenry be assured of a clean and honest election when the credibility of the officials to handle the printing of the ballots is already suspicious?”
He continued “that the danger lies on the fact that these officials no longer have accountability to the government and can do away with possible malfeasance relative to the printing of the ballots.”
It is in this regard that Bishop Pabillo was bringing this matter to Ochoa’s attention before the media, the NGOs, the opposition, and the general public get hold of this “very alarming information that will surely undermine the credibility of the conduct of the 2016 Elections.”
Dismissed with Andaya were printing operations chief Josefina San Pedro Samson, chief administrative officer Sylvia Banda, printing operations chief Antonio Sillona, budget officer Bernadette Lagumen and printing office assistant chief Ma. Gracia de Leon Enriquez.
They were also imposed the accessory penalties of perpetual disqualification from holding public office, cancellation of eligibility, bar from taking civil service examinations and forfeiture of retirement benefits.
He or she would be fined the equivalent of a year’s salary if any of them can no longer be dismissed because of separation from government service, according to the anti-graft agency.
Andaya, Banda, Sillona, Lagumen and Enriquez were earlier suspended preventively by the Sandiganbayan, where they are facing trial for graft.
The criminal and administrative charges against them arose from their alleged involvement in the questionable grant of a P3.6-million government contract to JI Printers Inc. in 2011 through negotiated procurement.
Bishop Broderick Pabillo, DD
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