BM Mendoza’s ouster sought
Mayor Nestor Pulido of Anda vowed to initiate a move to seek the ouster of Provincial Board Member Von Mark Mendoza as chairman of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan blue-ribbon committee.
The blue-ribbon is a quasi-judicial committee on good government and accountability of public officers.
Pulido said Mendoza showed “incompetence, partiality and lack of prudence” in the exercise of due process in legislation.
In a press briefing, Pulido who was meted a 30-day suspension by the SP on a 7-6 vote, described Mendoza as “incompetent”, saying he allowed himself to be influenced by senior and legalese members of the SP who allegedly maneuvered for a force majeur in hammering out the verdict.
Citing “lack of prudence”, the mayor said the blue-ribbon chairman failed to wield authority as he allowed a motion to inhibit against two members of the body to be “railroaded and outrightly junked.”
Pulido averred Mendoza did not lift a finger to steer the body into deliberating on the merits of the motion which was filed before a consensus to finalize the committee report was reached.
“He (Mendoza) is indecisive, incompetent and showed glaring partiality in the proceedings,” Pulido said.
The mayor sought to inhibit Board Members Alfonso Bince, Jr., a former chairman of the blue-ribbon committee, and BM Danilo Dizon, a political rival of his wife, BM Alice Pulido in the first district. Pulido claimed Bince manifested his partiality early on in the proceedings when he made public remarks that: “We have the numbers. Pulido will be suspended.”
As cited in the motion, Bince’s remarks were intimated in a coffee shop talk with former Dagupan City Mayor Benjie Lim, Dagupan City Councilor Jess Canto and Rhee Hortaleza, a newspaperman, at the Dagupena Restaurant days before the final deliberations on the administrative complaint against Pulido were put to rest.
“This only means that he (Bince) was not impartial as he prejudged the collegial decision,” Pulido contended. Turning back his tirade on Mendoza, the mayor expressed his doubts on the integrity of the blue-ribbon chairman.
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