JHMC employees withdraw complaint vs CEO; former gov’t official behind smear campaign
By:
Richard Valdez
Posted: 26-Jan-2012 / 4 weeks 1 hour ago
TEN out of the 17 employees of john Hay who signed a complaint against the president and chief executive officer of John Hay Management Corporation have retracted their signatures, stating that they were misled into signing the said document.
Agabayani said, the employees withdrew their signatures on their own , and no one harassed or forced them to do so.
Agabayani’s counsel, Dean Reynaldo Agranzamendez added that the employees have retracted on their own volition and nobody compelled them to do so.
In an affidavit, the employees who recanted their signatures stated that CJHMC public relations officer Arthur Odsey started the signature campaign to the petition complaint against Agbayani. They further added that they were made to sign Jan 18 and 19, 2011 .
The petition/complaint was filed with the Office of the Ombusdman and was sent to the Office of the President on January 20.
It can be recalled that national and local papers published reports that employees wrote a letter to PNoy complaining about excessive expenditures of JHMC president Agbayani.
“I have nothing to hide, everything is above board. All records are transparent and regularly audited,” Agbayani stressed. She added that the complaint came at a time when they were aggressively collecting the unpaid rentals of CJHDevCo amounting to P 3.024 billion.
For his part, JHMC board of director and former law dean, Atty. Cesar Oracion said the filing of the complaint against Agbayani was timed with developments on the John Hay issue to discredit the present leadership in the government-owned JHMC.
Oracion further stated that the complaint contained frivolous and flimsy allegations that were obviously written with malicious intent at discrediting JHMC’s president and CEO.
Agbayani pointed out that JHMC and BCDA were now focused on getting what is due the government, especially the people of Baguio.
She also revealed that a former government official was responsible in orchestrating the complaint. When asked to identify who the official was, Agabayani said, “we will reveal that in due time.”
However, a statement distributed to the media stated that Odsey was “closely identified” with the government official who has been eyeing the JHMC presidency.
“It is public knowledge that Odsey had, in the past, also started a petition addressed to the JHMC board to install Leandro Yangot as president of JHMC,” the statement read.
Meanwhile, former city councilor Yangot in a phone interview said, “on the merits of the case, we leave it to the President and the Ombudsman to decide.”
“Darum iti empleado, ket sungbatan da. Nagipulong da kenyak ngem imbagak kenya da nga aramiden da husto,” (a case was filed by the employees, and they will answer it, they told me a bout it but I said they should do what is best) Yangot added.
Reacting to the allegation that a political figure was behind the smear campaign, Yangot said, “anybody is suspect, pati ni Gov. Wacnang kadwa mi dita. Awan iti connection ko ken ni Odsey.” -- RSValdez
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