DILG serves suspension order vs. Cebu City mayor Rama
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The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday served the six-month long preventive suspension order against Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and seven other city officials.
According to a Super Radyo dzBB report by John Kim Bote, the DILG authorities served the suspension orders, but Rama and the seven others were not around to receive them.
Rama and seven others were placed under preventive suspension after the Ombudsman in Manila found sufficient grounds in a complaint filed against the Cebu City mayor in connection with the alleged unpaid salaries and benefits of four regular employees of the City Assessor’s Office since July 2023.
The four employees who filed the complaint against Rama and seven others have said that they have been reassigned to other offices without getting their due salaries and benefits.
Meanwhile, the Super Radyo dzBB report also stated that Rama held a press conference late Thursday night and decried the lack of due process in serving his suspension.
Rama also claimed that his suspension order is politically motivated and that someone has besmirched his name before President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.
Sought for the name of the said individual, Rama was tight-lipped.
Rama said that he has tried to reach out to the President to no avail, and that he was not aware of the complaint filed against him by the four employees. —Llanesca T. Panti/ VAL, GMA Integrated News
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