Needed: Experienced EO writer By Angie M. Rosales 07/03/2010

Needed: Experienced EO writer

By Angie M. Rosales 07/03/2010 Get an experienced writer and save yourself from more blunders. Thus was the advice given by Sen. Edgardo Angara to Malacañang yesterday, specifically to President Aquino, stemming from the blunder committed by the Chief Executive and his men over the issuance Wednesday of Memorandum Circular No. 1 (MC-1) “declaring all non-career exe-cutive positions vacant as of June 30 and extending the services of contractual em-ployees whose contracts expire on 20 June 2010,” a circular, observers noted, would leave the government practically inoperational. To cover up the blunder, the Palace came up with a second and revised MC-1, passing off the first as a draft while the second was passed off as the official document, but antedated. Angara said the only explanation that can be attributed to the incident is the relative inexperience of those tasked by Aquino to come up with such documents. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that the new administration is incompetent and ineffectual. It’s part of what you could say growing up, birth pangs. “What he should do is get a veteran memorandum and executive order writer. An experienced one. There are a lot of experienced persons in Malacañang and DoJ (Department of Justice),” he said. Angara pointed out that besides the need to observe the proper “form” in coming up with such issuances, the more significant and sensitive issue is its contents as shown by the slip up committed by Malacañang on the said MC. “Besides having a competent writer of EOs, AOs (administrative orders), there should also be someone reviewing these type of issuances. As shown in this case, it’s far-reaching. It affects careers of certain individuals, it affects steps, process and procedures of the bureaucracy.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100703hed2.html

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