Act of fealty
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While the government action against officials of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) was long expected, the seemingly synchronized actions of the Office of the President and the Ombudsman in slapping suspension orders on LWUA Chairman Prospero Pichay Jr. and three other officials left a bad taste in the mouth.
It appeared that the Palace was the first to act on the 90-day suspension of the three LWUA trustees and acting Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro, who is among the 25 candidates gunning for the post left by Noynoy’s nemesis, Merceditas Gutierrez, getting wind of the decision decided to do one better by freezing Pichay for six months.
Reporters were still asking Noynoy’s spokesmen at the Palace on the fate of Pichay since he was conspicuously not on the list of the LWUA executives ordered suspended when the Ombudsman issued the order canning Pichay..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110523com1.html
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