By BIN Staff | 02:37 PM May 30, 2024
A Facebook post of “The Bohol Monitor” on Thursday said:
“PANGURAKOT NI AUMENTADO SINUGDANAN NA NI SA GABA. ANG MGA BIKTIMA SA AICS SCAM NI AUMENTADO GITUAW NA ANG MGA KALAG. 6 MONTHS SUSPENDED SI ARIS. HEADLINE NA PUD ANG BOHOL.”
Aumentado and other 68 officials were suspended by six-month preventive suspension by the Office of the Ombudsman due to the Chocolate Hills resort controversy.
Aumentado, mayors, a vice mayor, village officials, police officers and officials of government agencies were suspended without pay for “grave misconduct, gross neglect of duty and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.”
The May 20 order wassigned by Ombudsman Samuel Martires.
The suspension is immediately executory. It will last until the administrative adjudication of the case is terminated but not to exceed six months “except when the delay in the disposition of the case is due to their fault, negligence, or petition.”
Also named as respondents were representatives of Bohol Representatives Edgar Chatto (First District) and Kristine Alexie Tutor (Third District); and former governors Rene Relampagos and Arthur Yap.
Yap was likewise a former congressman, succeeded by Tutor.
The Ombudsman Field Investigative Office, the complainant in the case, said the respondents “acted with manifest partiality, evident bad faith, gross inexcusable negligence and committed gross violations of the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 (NIPAS Act of 1992) and Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018 (E-NIPAS Act of 2018) when they remained adamant and continuously tolerated the operation and expansion of Captain’s Peak Garden and Resort despite its lack of environmental clearance permits and flagrant violations of the NIPAS and E-NIPAS Act.”
