Cebu Metropolis Mayors. Present Mayor Mike Rama (left) and Tommy Osmeña (proper). | file photographs
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The previous mayor of Cebu Metropolis, Tomas Osmeña, has one thing to say concerning the newest problem surrounding current mayor Michael Rama.
“I’m unhappy that I may not be capable of vote in opposition to him,” Osmeña stated.
Osmeña additionally referred to as for Rama to step down because the president of the nation’s Metropolis Mayors’ League, saying that the suspension order is an ‘a humiliation to each metropolis mayor within the Philippines.’
“Rama ought to resign as president of the Metropolis Mayors’ League as he is a humiliation to each metropolis mayor within the Philippines that he’s their ‘mannequin’ metropolis mayor,” he stated.
Just lately, the Ombudsman ordered to place Rama underneath a six-month preventive suspension over a case that concerned town’s lack of ability to pay the salaries of a number of of its workers.
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However in accordance with Osmeña, the embattled mayor, who additionally occurs to be his political opponent, might face one other suspension.
“And a fourth suspension is forthcoming for destroying authorities property of the Cebu Port Authority. (His second suspension was additionally for demolishing the infraproject of Brgy Labangon.),” he stated.
Osmeña additionally described the newest suspension order Rama confronted as one other embarrassment to Cebu Metropolis.
“Right here in Cebu Metropolis, we now have already gotten was embarrassed as that is his third suspension… No Cebu Metropolis Mayor has ever been suspended so Rama beats all of the earlier metropolis mayors three versus zero,” he added.
The state’s anti-graft investigating physique issued an eight-page decision dated Might 2, 2024, to place Rama and different seven Metropolis Corridor officers underneath suspension for the criticism of grave misconduct and conduct unbecoming of a public officer and conduct prejudicial to one of the best curiosity amongst others.
The choice stemmed over a case that concerned the reassigning of a number of metropolis corridor workers that resulted within the metropolis authorities’s failure to pay them their wages for 10 months.
Rama’s camp has but to remark additional on the event, including that they haven’t obtained a replica of the Ombudsman’s orders.
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