CAPIZ FORUM
Mayor reinstates Bermejo’s allies
BY FELIPE CELINO
ROXAS City — Mayor Angel Alan Celino started reinstating city officials he earlier relieved for being closely identified with former Mayor Vicente Bermejo.
Barely six months after his assumption, Celino reinstated Rainier Cargando as supervisor of the Teodoro Arcenas Trade Center (TATC), this city’s premier market.
The mayor relieved TATC Market Supervisor Leonilo Araque and reassigned him back to the City Treasurer’s Office (CTO).
In his memorandum order dated January 4, the mayor designated Cargando to assume the vacant post effective January 6.
Cargando has been the TATC supervisor during the time of Bermejo.
Araque, on the other hand, will resume taking charge of the CTO’s Real Property Tax Division.
On January 21, Celino also reinstated Dr. Amelita Robles as city health officer. He designated Dr. Esperanza Gepellano as assistant of Robles.
Dr. Gepellano was assigned as acting city health officer after Celino earlier relieved Dr. Robles from the post.
Robles and Cynthia Besana, the relieved City Social Welfare and Development officer, questioned Celino’s actions.
The mayor, they said, violates the Magna Carta of public employees.
But Celino told them that they were temporarily relieved so they could not influence the ongoing investigation on the alleged anomalies of the Bermejo administration.
He added that he did not violate any law, considering that the relieved department heads are still receiving the same salary.
Celino denied being a vindictive person, or someone running after the supporters of his political enemies.
Bermejo is facing five administrative and criminal charges filed by the present administration before the Office of the Ombudsman – Visayas./PN
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