Suspended Bangui mayor returns to office

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff reporter

Bangui, Ilocos Norte—Suspended Bangui Mayor Diosdado Garvida has returned to his post after a “stay order” was handed down by the Office of the President.

Bangui Mayor Diosdado Garvida

In a two-page order signed by Atty. Michael Aguinaldo, Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs under the Office of the President, the execution of the Ilocos Norte Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s decision to suspend Mr. Garvida for six months has been put in abeyance pending the Bangui mayor’s appeal to the Office of the President.

The order dated March 20 was received by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on April 13 or almost five months since Garvida was suspended in October last year.

Early in the morning of April 15, Mr. Garvida formally reported back to work showing the stay order from Malacañang to all concerned.

“The stay order does not mean Mayor Garvida was already acquitted or his case was dismissed. It means the case is pending while the Office of the President reviews his appeal to determine if the decision may be reversed or affirmed,” Atty. Jayson Ferera, provincial legal officer of Ilocos Norte.

Should the mayor be found not guilty of the administrative case filed against him, he will be entitled to his monthly salary while serving his suspension by the Ilocos Norte board. But if he is found liable, Mr. Ferera said he will continue to serve his remaining one-month suspension.

Last February, it may be recalled that Mr. Garvida was barred by police authorities from entering his office due to lack of an official order stating that he can now be allowed to resume his functions as mayor of Bangui town.

Since November 14, 2014, the Bangui mayor’s office has been padlocked to prevent the mayor from entering the office.

Mr. Garvida was suspended in for an administrative complaint filed against him by a Bangui resident for gun toting and indiscriminate firing incident at the provincial board.

Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan later found him guilty of the charge and was ordered suspended for six months.

Mr. Garvida however made an appeal to the Office of the President regarding his suspension. The said office has since handed down a stay order while they study the case against the Bangui mayor.

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