President Duterte names personnel dismissed from service due to corruption
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte announced the dismissal from service Monday of another group of government personnel due to corruption, reiterating his resolve to fight the menace that has been going on for decades.
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the MalacaΓ±ang Golf (Malago) Clubhouse in MalacaΓ±ang Park, Manila on June 14, 2021. RICHARD MADELO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
In his televised Talk to the People, the President announced the dismissal of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) personnel Nora Halamani and Abolais Ampa, both Revenue Officer III, for demanding P400,000 bribe in exchange of approval of signed tax payment forms for the settlement of Dealco Farms purported tax liabilities.
Also
dismissed from the service was local government official Antonio Palanca, a
Palawan Provincial Health Officer, for malversation of public funds or
property.
He
has been charged of misappropriating P250,000 from the illegal sale of 16,728
tons of iron steel from the demolished building of the Brooke’s Point District
Hospital in Palawan.
“Sabi
ninyo may corruption, may corruption talaga sa gobyerno. Iyong mga empleyado
doon matagal na, halos tag-25 years. Ikaw ang manghinayang,” President Duterte
said in announcing the dismissals.
“Kung
sabihin ninyo corruption sa gobyerno, matagal na ‘yan, noon pa ‘yan. Nag-umpisa
‘yan hindi sa panahon ko. Kaya magdahan-dahan ng salita. ‘Pag sinabi ko “ayaw
ko ng corruption,” ‘pag inabutan ka, patay ka,” he added.
Eliminating
graft and corruption in government was one of the President’s campaign pledges
when he ran for president in 2016, along with putting an end to the
proliferation of illegal narcotics and criminality. PND
