Rosario: Buted deserves SP’s sanction
LINGAYEN–The Pangasinan Provincial Board does not regret its decision adopting a resolution that declared Pangasinan State University (PSU) president Dexter Buted persona non grata in Pangasinan.
This was stressed by 4th District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario, one of two proponents of the resolution that declared Buted persona non grata.
Rosario said the resolution was prompted by the show of disrespect by PSU officials led by Buted by ignoring the series of invitations issued by an ad hoc committee of the board looking into the complaint over alleged anomalous implementation of the on-the-Job training program for graduating students of the university.
The last straw that broke the camel’s back was when PSU officials also snubbed the invitation by the board to attend its Question Hour last Oct. 3 in order to shed light on the issue.
Rosario also reacted sharply to Buted‘s statement that politics was behind the resolution declaring him persona non grata.
He said election was already long over and the issue involved legitimate complaints involving more than 40 graduating students that were made to work in a pharmaceutical laboratory and in a field not even related to their field of study in Business Administration and under the cover of the OJT program.
The complaint was filed by Dharel de la Cruz, a PSU graduating student who was made to report as casual worker at Interphil Laboratories in Laguna by a manpower agency and where he and other students were told to conceal their status as OJT students.
De la Cruz forwarded his complaint to then Governor Amado Espino Jr. sometime in June and which Espino referred to the past provincial board.
“We would have wanted to hear from Dean Adonis Bautista whom we consider as the missing link to this issue because on record he was the one who referred the students to IJF Manpower Services based in San Carlos City.
After being exposed to chemicals in the pharmaceutical company, De la Cruz got sick and was hospitalized.
“I hope the Commission on Higher Education will read our report on this OJT issue and do something to protect the students from further exploitation,” Rosario said. (Leonardo Micua)
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