Legal officer under threat
SOMEBODY out there doesn’t want the city legal officer of Dagupan talking to local media too much.
Retired City Court Judge George Mejia, the city’s legal officer, said repeated telephone calls have been made to this home, received mostly by his househelp, warning him to stop talking to the press.
He told newsmen that if the calls were meant as threats, he speculated that it could be in connection with the controversial MetroState project at the former Magsaysay Park, the construction of which has been stopped by the city government upon his advice.
Another possibility, he said, is that it may have stemmed from the creation of the Personnel Performance Rating Board and the recent strict observance of office hours at the city hall.
“I don’t know if this will be considered as a threat but my helper in my house told me last Friday that she received several phone calls telling her to inform me that I should refrain from talking to the press,” he said.
Mejia, however, is unperturbed.
“If they are threatening me, this is what I am going to say to them – they are barking up the wrong tree,” he said.
Nonetheless, Mejia said he is taking precautions in light of the gunslaying of noted criminal defense lawyer Conrado Soriano Jr. in San Carlos City last Monday.
“After those phone calls, I have had to change my usual daily routine,” he said.
He said the caller phoned three times Friday morning and twice in the evening before he arrived from work, giving the same message: “for me to refrain from talking to the press”.
Although the phone call from the unidentified caller were persistent, Mejia said he does not consider this as a serious threat because he was used to receiving threats when he served as judge for Municipal Trial Court for 24 years.—LM
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