Lucman questions EO 2 before SC By Benjamin B. Pulta 09/17/2010

Lucman questions EO 2 before SC
By Benjamin B. Pulta
09/17/2010

Another government official

who fell to Malacañang’s Executive Order No. 2 (EO 2) revoking the so-called “midnight appointees” of former President and now Rep. Gloria Arroyo has petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) for a temporary restraining order (TRO).

Bai Omera Dianalan-Lucman, was appointed by Arroyo as commissioner and secretary of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) with Cabinet rank in March, included the TRO prayer in her petition questioning the constitutionality of EO 2.

Through her lawyers Jose Ventura Aspiras and Bantuas Lucman, the NCMF chief urged the SC to rule whether or not her assumption to office during the election ban makes her a midnight appointee considering that her appointment and oath-taking came before the ban.

Earlier this week, Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz clarified that despite the issuance of EO 2 “thousands of appointees shortly before the March 10 deadline were allowed to keep their posts” by the Aquino administration. “We ended up using Palace records as basis some of which are also missing.”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100917nat1.html