Job order employees to file affidavit before Ombudsman

Three residents here, who are connected with local barangay officials, are set to submit on December 18 their affidavit to the Office of the Ombudsman denying knowledge about the inclusion of their names in the payroll as job order appointments of the City Government under the administration of Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.

Marlene Coronel, wife of Salapungan village councilman Renato Coronel; Josephine Bondoc, wife of Capaya village councilman Rafael Bondoc, and Robert Miranda, friend of Santo Domingo village councilman Oliver Chaneco all signed their affidavits declaring that they did not know that their names have been included in the list of the city’s job order employees.

The affidavits will be submitted as supplements to the complaint submitted by local mediaman Robledo Sanchez to the Ombudsman on October 19, 2012 charging Mayor Pamintuan, City Accountant Wilfredo Tiotuico, City Budget Officer Fe Corpuz, City Treasurer Juliet Quinsaat and the different respective department heads with graft and corruption over the 2,506 job order employees employed by the Pamintuan administration.

Coronel, Bondoc and Miranda are all listed as administrative assistants under the Philhealth program of the Office of the Mayor, hired for the period of July 1 to December 30, 2012, and are supposedly receiving a salary rate of P500 a day.

All three of them deny any participation in the said Philhealth Program and said that they are neither working for nor receiving salary from the City Government.

According to Coronel, Bondoc and Miranda, they decided to submit their affidavit after discovering, through a local radio program, that their names have been included in the said list of job order employees without their knowledge.

Earlier, Lourdes village councilman William David also denied knowing about the inclusion of his wife’s name, Irene David, in the list of job order employees.

This is also the case for Cutcut village councilman Roy Ogurida who denied any knowledge about his sister’s name, Joan Lozano, being included in the said list.

David and Ogurida, previously, both appeared in a local radio station to air their grievances.

by: Reynaldo Navales

City gov’t spends P20M a month on JOs

The City Government is spending P20 million every month for the salaries of job order employees, according to veteran newsman Robledo Sanchez.

Sanchez, in his complaint sheet filed before the Office of the Ombudsman against Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and other city officials, stated that some of the job-order employees occupy the same position within a department or a program, usually as administrative assistants or administrative aides paid in different rates as high as P25,000 a month.

Sanchez revealed that the City Government’s Solid Waste Management Program has the biggest number of job-order employees with 183, followed by the Traffic Management Program with 137 employees.

He said the Tourism Promotion and Development Program’s 62 job-order employees receive daily rates ranging from P600 to P650.

On October 19, 2012, Sanchez filed graft and corruption charges against Pamintuan, City Accountant Wilfredo Tiotuico, City Budget Officer Fe Corpuz, City Treasurer Juliet Quinsaat and the different respective Department Heads in connection with the 2,506 job order employees under the Pamintuan administration.

Sanchez obtained documents including appointment papers of job order employees signed by Pamintuan, his secretary Kirk Galanza and City Administrator Dennis Albert Pamintuan.

Sanchez said Pamintuan and his cohorts violated Republic Act (RA) 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and RA 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards of Public Officials and Employees.

Sanchez also noted that the appointment of these job order employees are in violation of Civil Service Commission (CSC) Memorandum Circular No. 17 Series of 2002, dated June 24, 2002, which states that contracts for job-order employees should be submitted to the CSC Regional Office (CSCRO) to be reviewed on whether the said contracts are complying with CSC guidelines.

by: Reynaldo Navales