Garcia believes circumstances filed in opposition to him are ‘politically motivated’

Cebu Metropolis mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia. CDN Digital | Niña Mae Oliverio [FILE PHOTO]

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Following the complaints filed by dismissed Mayor Michael Rama’s son in opposition to Cebu Metropolis Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia over the weekend, the latter remained unfazed.

In a press convention on Monday, Garcia mentioned that he was “not stunned” with the complaints filed in opposition to him, as he additionally anticipated “extra circumstances” subsequent 12 months or months earlier than the election interval.

“Till mahuman ang election tingali, that’s the time nga ang circumstances, mogamay, mokunhod (Till the election is completed, that’s the time that the circumstances would get fewer, lower (no. of circumstances). That is political season and I’ve been saying this again and again, this is without doubt one of the methods for candidates to advertise themselves and to place different candidates in a nasty gentle,” Garcia mentioned.

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He added that every little thing that had occurred in opposition to him proper now was “politically motivated” because it was election season.

In a 13-page criticism that was shared to the members of the media, Lawyer Mikel Rama filed costs of grave misconduct and dishonesty, different frauds, refusal to discharge elective workplace, and abandonment of workplace or place.

These costs had been filed earlier than the Workplace of the Ombudsman final December 6.

The complaints stemmed from the day when Garcia took his oath of workplace as full-fledged mayor of Cebu Metropolis final October 9 and was administered by Division of Inside and Native Authorities (DILG-7) Director Leocadio Trovela, who was additionally sued by Mikel for grave misconduct, dishonesty, and falsification of public paperwork underneath Article 171(4) of the Revised Penal Code, amongst others.

Mikel expressed in his complaints that the Ombudsman would subject “applicable order and provisional treatment, together with however not restricted to a stop and desist order” for Garcia “from persevering with to unlawfully train the features of the Metropolis Mayor of Cebu Metropolis to the detriment of the general public.”

Mikel added that such acts he cited in his complaints had been cheap grounds for Garcia to be positioned underneath preventive suspension, “as to stop the tampering of paperwork, influencing of potential witnesses” and obstructing the Ombudsman to “give you an neutral investigation.”

Garcia: Not my doing

Garcia, for his half, since complaints in opposition to him weren’t shocking, he would reply them in a “correct discussion board.”

“Pero ako ba, makafeel baya ko kay akong amahan sa una, mayor baya sa syudad sa Sugbo. Og naay mga kaso, mobati man unhappy tag kaluoy ug kalagot and I actually perceive how he feels snow pero I hope additionally nga he’ll put it to thoughts and coronary heart nga kaning gipang expertise sa iyang pamilya labi na siyang amahan, di tawn ni tungod nako uy,” Garcia mentioned.

(However for me, I can really feel as a result of I’m the daddy first, I’m the mayor of the town of Cebu. If there’s a case, we are able to even really feel pity and anger, and I actually perceive how he felt now, however I hope he’ll put it to thoughts and coronary heart about what his household is experiencing particularly his father, it isn’t due to me.)

Garcia added that he by no means induced the criticism nor filed one. And the entire issues that former mayor Rama are going through, at current, are “not” Garcia’s doing.

“Mao nang akoa ba (That’s what I feel) , I can really feel for him however he shouldn’t take it out in opposition to me as a result of wa tawn koy sala oy (I’ve nothing to do with it). I’m simply an harmless bystander. And I’m simply obeying the regulation and what the DILG has requested me to do,” Garcia added.

Regardless of the variety of complaints he obtained in opposition to him, Garcia mentioned that he was not planning to file complaints in opposition to Rama.

Garcia mentioned that he would solely file a criticism if there could be sufficient proof in opposition to a complainant.

“I don’t need to be distracted with taking of submitting circumstances in opposition to anybody as a result of for me, my precedence is governing the Metropolis of Cebu. That’s what I’ve been doing for the previous seven months now. Diha lang gihapon magpabilin akong precedence (That’s the place our precedence stays),” he added.

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