SLAPPING
GAME
Mejorada slaps Suplico with admin raps
By DAVID ISRAEL SINAY
ILOILO City – Provincial
Administrator Manuel Mejorada slapped anew vice gov.
Rolex Suplico with an administrative complaint for abuse
of authority, misconduct in office and dereliction of
duty in the discharge of his official functions before
the Office of the President.
Mejorada cited in his complaint the passage of the resolution
to override the veto of Gov Niel Tupas, Sr. over Appropriation
Ordinance No. 2008-01-b and Resolution No. 2008-044
– the second and final component of the province’s
2008 annual
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budget;
and the revised and modified Annual Investment Plan of
the province.
Resolution No. 2008-073 adopted by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan
of Iloilo for the override of the veto, “respondent
Suplico flagrantly violated RA 7160, and the Sanggunian’s
own Internal Rules of Procedure,” Mejorada cited
in his complaint.
SP’s Internal Rules of Procedure as embodied
in Resolution No. 2007-120, particularly Rule V, Section
1(a), prescribing the duties and responsibilities of
the Presiding Officer states “[the presiding officer]
shall preside over all sessions of the SP nd shall not
be entitled to vote except in case of a tie.”
“In a deliberate and unlawful neglect and abandonment
of his mandated duty as presiding officer, and in a
clear abuse of authority, respondent Suplico refused
to perform his function and proceeded to cast his vote
in favor of the measure,” Mejorada said.
He said there can be no legal justification for the
acts taken by the vice governor, “which made a
mockery of the Local Government Code and turned the
SP into a political circus, as the local media has ridiculed
and laughed at his acts.”
He filed the complaint at the Department of Interior
and Local Government (DILG) regional office on Friday.
The DILG will endorse the complaint in their Central
Office which shall then be forwarded to the Office of
the President.
“The SP never sought our
opinion or assistance. As a general rule, it is very
clear under the law that there can be no other circumstances
the presiding officer could vote unless in case of a
tie. Otherwise, there would be some defects on the legislation,”
DILG assistant regional director Atty. Anthony Nuyda
told reporters./PN
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