PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan — The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has dismissed a municipal vice mayor in southern Palawan after finding her guilty of “serious dishonesty and grave misconduct” for using another person to take her civil service eligibility examination.
Ordered dismissed was Quezon town’s Vice Mayor Eugene Ayod in relation to a 2004 complaint employing a male person to take her eligibility test in 1997.
A CSC order dated Sept. 18, obtained by the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Friday, said the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) also instructed the stripping of Ayod’s civil service eligibility, forfeiture of her retirement benefits, perpetual disqualification from holding public office, and to bar her from taking any CSC-related exam.
She shall, however, retain “but with modification, her personal contributions to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and accrued leave credits.”
The five-page decision against Ayod, who was Quezon’s municipal treasurer in 2004, was signed by Alicia dela Rosa-Bala, and Commissioner Leopoldo Roberto Valderosa Jr., and was attested by Dolores Bonifacio, Director IV of the Commission Secretariat and Liaison Office.
The dismissal order directed the DILG to execute Decision No. 150371 that was made on June 10, 2015 after the CSC denied Ayod’s motion for dismissal.
The CSC said Ayod’s dismissal as vice mayor was based on the accessory of the penalty that states she is “perpetually disqualified from holding public office.”
On Nov. 17, 2004, Ayod was accorded a “permanent promotional appointment” as assistant municipal treasurer.
In support of this, she submitted a personal data sheet (PDS) dated June 16, 2004, indicating she had passed the Career Service Professional Examination (CSPE) conducted on Feb. 16, 1997, with a rating of 82.16 percent, the CSC order said.
However, upon verification of the picture of the examinee on record in the picture seat plan (PSP), the one who took the exam was a male.
The CSC order said Ayod’s PDS did not match the record of the male examinee.
“Thus, it was obvious that Ayod caused another person to take the Feb. 16, 1997, CSPE in Puerto Princesa City, for and on her behalf,” the order said.
Ayod had filed a motion for reconsideration in 2015 but it was denied by the CSC.
She also made an appeal before the Supreme Court (SC) but this was also denied in February 2016.
In 2004, the complaint against Ayod was filed by a certain “Mr. Cario,” a resident of Quezon. Before the 2016 elections, Rogelio Lauros and his group also filed a petition for disqualification against her before the Commission on Elections.
The PNA tried but failed to get Ayod’s comments.
Meanwhile, DILG Palawan provincial director Mario Daquer said they have not yet received a copy of Ayod’s dismissal as of yet.
“Wala pa kaming natatanggap tungkol diyan (We have not received anything about that),” Daquer said in a text message, without elaborating further. (Celeste Anna Formoso/PNA)
