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Acenas brushes aside CA order, ‘Oca’ happy Volume IV, No. 148 web portal: www.mindanaodailynews.com
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By CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor
The lawyers of ousted Cagayan De Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno reportedly obtained a “status quo ante-order” from the Court of Appeals Friday afternoon. With the reported “status quo ante-order,” the ousted city Mayor, who was reportedly holed up inside the City Hall, executive building since Thursday night, went out to greet a jubilant crowd. “The issuance of the status quo ante-order is what we called the rule of law and justice,” Moreno told his supporters who were waving and shouting on seeing him at the balcony of the City Hall building. The camp of the newly installed City Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas, however, brushed aside the alleged “status quo ante-order” and maintained that Acenas remains the new City Mayor. City Councilor Leon Gan, who spoke in behalf
of the newly installed officials, said that the camp of Moreno might have misinterpreted the CA order. He said that the status quo ante-order (if there is since they have not received a copy yet) is not binding because Mayor Ian Acenas and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) were not impleaded in the petition. The parties of the case, which was the object of the “status quo ante-order” were only between the dismissed Moreno and the Office of the Ombudsman, Gan said. “If Acenas was impleaded in the petition, the CA would give us a chance to answer and rebut the argument of Moreno’s petition, See order, page A11
Filinvest Land Inc. joined the Cooperative Month upland tree planting activity at Barangay Indahag last October 17, 2015. Exemplifying the cooperative principle of concern for community and the environment, FLI partnered with the Philippine Air Force TOG-10 with Filinvest Employees, Brokers and Sellers in compliance with the Board of Investment directive to plant 100 trees. FLI employees, brokers and in-house sellers planted 500 of the 2,000 total seedlings planted along with the Regional Cooperative Development Council (RCDC)-10.
‘Dismissed’ CDO mayor questions Ombud’s decision; Ask why only an investigator reviewed the decision By BONG D. FABE
CAGAYAN de Oro City--An embattled Mayor Oscar S. Moreno yesterday went on the offensive and for the first time publicly questioned the decision of the Ombudsman dismissing him from service and barring him from holding public office for life — a decision he, his supporters and even his accuser said is “too harsh,”
“excessive,” and “too much.” Holed up in his office after the DILG ser ved the order early Thursday night, Moreno asked why the deputy ombudsman for Mindanao did not review the decision written by an investigator. “The decision was written by a certain investigator and not reviewed by the deputy ombudsman for Mindanao, it was reviewed
by somebody else. Why? Why was this decision reviewed by somebody other than the deputy ombudsman for Mindanao? That is quiet surprising. I hope that somebody will have the answer. I hope Deputy Ombudsman [Rodolfo M.] Elman will have the answer,” Moreno said. T he d e c is i on w as re viewedby Marco Anacleto P. See questions, page A2
Rodriguez urges PHL to join TPP but ‘with reservation’ By BONG D. FABE
CAGAYAN de Oro City-The outgoing congressman representing this city’s second legislative district yesterday urged the Aquino administration to pursue its ambition of joining the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to boost the Philippines’ development and progress. If granted, the Philippines will become the 13th
nation to join the TPP, after the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, however, expressed “reservation” to a provision in the Dispute Settlement chapter of the TPP, which appears to side with private companies against governments. Article 28:1(c) of the 19-page Dispute Settlement
chapter (Chapter 28 of the TPP) states that the dispute settlement provisions shall apply “wherever a party considers that a benefit it could reasonably have expected to accrue to it under Chapter 2 (National Treatment and Market Access for Goods), Chapter 3 (Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures), Chapter 4 (Textiles and Apparel), Chapter 5 (Customs Administration and See join, page A11