http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2008/07/16/news/palace.to.jonas.answer.charges.html
Palace to Jonas: Answer charges
MALACAÑANG has ordered Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes to answer within 15 days the complaint filed by six city councilors against him for dishonesty, oppression, misconduct in office, abuse of authority and culpable violation of the Constitution.
In a fax message to Cortes, Atty. Rowena Turingan-Sanchez, Director IV of the Office of the President, directed the mayor to submit his verified answer, not a motion to dismiss, on the complaint dated April 30, 2008.
Biaño said the complaint stemmed from Cortes’ two executive orders which, they say, contradict provisions of the City’s appropriation ordinance and other provisions of the law.
These prompted Councilors Victor Biaño, Alfonso Albaño Jr., Ma. Noeleen Borbajo, Procopio Villanueva, Editha Cabahug and Emiliano Rosal to file their complaint before the Office of the President.
Biaño’s complaint focused on Executive Order 13, which ordered all finance officials to disregard and set aside a provision of the budget ordinance requiring an enabling resolution in disbursing funds from lump sum appropriations.
Biaño also accused Cortes of deliberately misquoting Section 77 of the Local Government Code by stating that the hiring of job-order workers must be authorized by the Civil Service Commission (CSC).
Section 77 states that the “chief executive of every local government unit shall be responsible for human resources and development in his unit and shall take all personnel actions in accordance with the Constitutional provisions on civil service, pertinent laws, and rules and regulations thereon, including such policies, guidelines and standards as the CSC may establish.”
The same section, however, also states that “the local chief executive may employ emergency or casual employees or laborers paid on a daily wage or piecework basis and hired through job orders for local projects authorized by the council concerned, without need of approval or attestation by the CSC.”
Sought for reaction, Cortes said he will give his answer within 15 days, considering that the matter raised before the Office of the President is just a complaint, not an investigation.
For his part, Mandaue City Administrator Briccio Boholst believes Cortes was right when he issued that order.
Once the City Council approves an appropriation ordinance, there’s nothing else that needs to be done for it to be implemented, he added.
“If they indicate there an enabling resolution, that is already superfluity,” he said.
Boholst also insisted that it is the CSC which authorizes the hiring of personnel.
When Vice Mayor Carlo Pontico Fortuna clarified, according to Biaño, that it is the City Council and not the CSC that has the authority, Cortes issued Executive Order 14 disregarding the vice mayor’s pronouncements. (OCP)
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03-10-2009, 05:13 PM #131Banned User
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BAHAW
Originally Posted by royrichard
KAnang COUNCIL sige RANA ug NO.... kay WA MANA SILAY KAUGALINGON UTOK.. sunod ra ni OUANO...
KARON 2010... pang IBUTON nana sila... WALA Nay SHABU money para ELECTION
Resolution SIGE LAG BABAG...
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03-10-2009, 05:19 PM #133Elite Member
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WA man ga buot nimo... Originally Posted by royrichard
PERO sige LANG KA HIMO UG ACCOUNT
ARON INGNON DAGHAN MO!!!! Pikat... IKAW RA USA... one, PISO,
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Originally Posted by cheaptech
Bro,
Na KingBoks na si royrichard Bro
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mao gyud Originally Posted by royrichard
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03-10-2009, 06:59 PM #136Elite Member
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Kani si royrichard ba, kusoga molaban ni Nerry oist.defensive man kaayo siya murag abogago ni Nerry hahahah! Di ba kaha ni siya ang abogago ni Nerry kanang pareho pud ni Biano ka potot. Dili na lagi madala ug diskarte ang mga taga Mandaue kay kahibawo na lagi unsa ka "TRAPO" ni iyahang Inday Nerry. Kami, nilaban ug ni support mi ni Jonas not because relative mi niya,not because nahatagan mig pabor nila, not because sispsip mi. In fact wala gyud na kaila namo ang mga Corteses pero kami kaila kaayo mi ana nila. Amo lang jud nakit-an na mas maayo, sincere and dedicated jud siya nga mayor pareho sa iyaha papa sa una and most of all, DILI KURAKOT.
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Originally Posted by royrichard
Ug gusto ka mahibaw-an imo opinion ...dili ka magkinahanglan ug daghan account. Para lang gyud ingnon kunuhay daghan nilaban ni Inday Nerry? Wa magsilbi imo style kay mga bryt ang mga pipol diri sa istorya. Mao na tabangan ka sa tanan kay maluoy mi nimo basin mabuang nya ka ug ilis ilis account !
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03-10-2009, 07:40 PM #138admit man lagi ka. wa man mi nagbuot nga nagmake ka daghan account. ingon lang mi nga ngilad. murag natakdan man ka sa imo idol. ayaw ilari mga taw bro. Originally Posted by royrichard
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Originally Posted by royrichard
let's talk morality, honesty, and plain and simple stupidity (or perhaps arrogance?)...
Biano, one of nerissa's puppets in the council. kung ingon ani ang pagkatao sa mga sulogoon unsa nalang kaha ang sa amo?!
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Arrest warrant for Biaño - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Arrest warrant for Biaño
By Dale G. Israel
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 09:13:00 01/23/2009
Filed Under: Crime and Law and Justice, Legal issues
Why would a father manipulate data on his child’s birth certificate?
A court in Cagayan de Oro City has issued a warrant of arrest against a Mandaue City councilor for allegedly faking some entries in the certificate of live birth of his daughter who turns eight years old today.
But opposition Councilor Victor Biaño denied the charge and told in a text message that he already posted P12,000 bail in Cagayan de Oro even before the arrest warrant was served in Cebu yesterday.
He accused Mandaue Mayor Jonas Cortes of having a hand in influencing the midwife who filed a case against him.
“Jonas coerced the lowly government employee to file the case which indicates that he could not find any other issue related to my job as Sangguniang Panglunsod member. Shame on him (Cortes),” Biaño said.
According to the complaint, the birth certificate mistakenly says the child was born in Cagayan de Oro although the midwife assisted in the delivery of his daughter in Lapu-Lapu City.
The document also states the date of Biaño’s marriage as February 2005 whereas the nuptials were actually held in 1984.
Policemen in Mandaue went looking for Biaño yesterday to serve the warrant. He wasn’t in his office in City Hall or his law office nearby.
It would have been embarrassing for the city official to be taken into police
custody and perhaps spend time in detention while processing his bail.
Meanwhile, Mayor Cortes denied instigating Grace Flores, a City Health Office midwife, and having a hand in the issuance of the arrest warrant.
He declined to comment further, saying “I respect the ceasefire between us and the (opposition-led) City Council. I respect the Mandauehanons more and I want to keep the ceasefire and focus on our work.”
Flores, a long-time friend of the Biaño couple, had filed the charge of fasification of public document.l
In her affidavit, she said she noticed some erroneous entries in the Certificate of Live Birth of Kyla Angela Biaño when she came across the document in November 2007.
Flores said she believed the signature of the midwife in the document was forged since she did not remember signing any document after assisting Biaño's second wife Ellen in delivering Kyla.
She said the baby was delivered in Biaño's house in Lapu-Lapu City on Jan. 23, 2001 and not in Cagayan de Oro as appearing in the document.
The date of marriage of Biaño and Ellen was also falsified, according to Flores.
She said the couple tied the knot in February 2005 and not in 1984 as indicated in the certificate of live birth.
Flores said after the delivery of Kyla, the couple told her that they would be the ones to prepare the certificate of live birth and its registration.
A week later, Biaño told the midwife the birth certificate was registered in Cagayan de Or City. He also assured her that nothing illegal was done.
In his counter affidavit, Biaño turned the tables on Flores, saying it was the midwife who falsified the document.
He said he merely signed a blank certificate after Flores assured him that she would take care of the registration.
But Associate Prosecutor Attorney II Abdullah Macagaan of the Cagayan de Oro prosecutor's office found probable cause to indict the councilor for falsification of public document as the certificate of live birth appeared to have been falsified.
The councilor failed to present proof of the midwife's interest in falsifying the papers.
Regardless whether the case was politically motivated, “the fact remains that the crime has been committed.”
“Certificate of live births are repositories of one’s true identity. Falsifying the same is like cheating a person's identity and self-worth,” said the prosecutor.
The resolution dated Oct. 27, 2008 was elevated to the court.
Judge Romualdo Galarrita of the Cagayan de Oro Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 3 issued the arrest warrant on Jan. 20. A copy was brought to the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) yesterday afternoon.
PO3 Rogelio Travero and two policemen from station 1 in barangay Centro went to Councilor Biaño's office in City Hall at 3:05 p.m. looking for him but the councilor was not there. Police also visited his law office behind City Hall.
Staffers told police Biaño was in Cagayan de Oro for a personal trip.
Biaño sent a text to City Administrator Briccio Joseph Boholst about his aborted arrest.
“Please tell your Mayor that I posted bail at the MTCC Branch 3, CDO, minutes after the warrant was picked up yesterday (Jan. 21) by your slave, Police Inspector Sucalit. I will never allow you to have the pleasure of seeing me arrested and detained. SORRY guys! You have wasted media's time...”
The councilor later told CDN in a text message that Mayor Cortes had caused the filing of the charges against him.
About an hour before a copy of the warrant was brought to Mandaue, Flores, the midwife sought the help of Boholst in City Hall. She said Ellen, the wife of Councilor Biaño, threatened to file a case against her because of the case.
Boholst assured that his office would provide legal services if this happens.
Flores has worked as a midwife at the City Health Office for 16 years.
When news reporters caught up with her, she looked nervous about a reprisal.
“Giingnan ko niya nga nganung nag-apil apil ko sa pulitika unya mananghid kuno sila nako nga ila pud kuno ko'ng ikiha (They told me why did I get involved in politics. They said they would include me in the charges),” Flores told reporters.
Biaño said the attempt to arrest him was the mayor's way of getting back at him for being a fiscalizer in the City Council.
He said court employees in Cagayan de Oro had told him that several people in different “sizes and shapes” have been following up the status of his case. He said Cortes has relatives in Cagayan de Oro.
“I challenge him to fight me alone and to exclude my family,” Biaño said.
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Good point !
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