BINMALEY—Two local government officers here have been put on a 60-day preventive suspension effective August 27 due to administrative cases for dishonesty and neglect in the performance of duty filed against them.

On suspension are Gertrudez Reyes, municipal accountant, and Jeffrey de los Angeles, budget officer.

Lawyer Armenio Escat Jr., municipal administrator, explained that the preventive suspension on the two is intended to prevent them from exerting influence on their respective offices while the administrative cases filed against them are being heard.

The preventive suspension was ordered by Mayor Simplicio Rosario as the disciplining officer soon after their filed response to the accusations were found unsatisfactory.

The cases stem from the exhausted 2013 budgets for gasoline and lubricants under the mayor’s office and the municipal administrator’s office when Rosario took over the post in July after winning in the May election.

Escat noted that the gasoline and lubricants budget were used even when almost all the official vehicles of the municipal government were under state of disrepair during the term of former Mayor Lorenzo Cerezo.

Escat said other expenditure items were suspiciously used up such as the budget for maintenance in the amount of P4.2 million was down to only P2,000; the financial assistance of P3 million for individuals in distress is down to only P100,000, and the P1 million allotted for Gender and Development (GAD) was down to P69,000.

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