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3 City Hall crew test positive of drugs
DAVAO City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio ordered immediate termination of three City Hall job order employees who were found positive of illegal drug use during the mandatory random drug testing in October.
"During the drug testing under the Cadac (City Anti-drug Abuse Council) there are three employees from the (CTTMO) who were found positive so the department heads agreed that there will be immediate termination of their contracts," Duterte-Carpio said in an interview yesterday.
Based on the statement from Davao City Information
Office (CIO), Michael Denton Aportadera, the action officer of the City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC), said the three employees were among the 1,127 government workers who underwent the random drug test conducted since last month.
"We did the confirmatory test for the three employees after they tested positive, and it turned out that there were indeed traces of illegal substances in the urine samples submitted for the test," he said.
Aportadera noted that under the Civil Service Law, drug users in the government should face termination from service.
He said that the mayor wanted to ensure that government employees are living healthy lifestyles and do not use illegal drugs.
Aportadera said the October random drug testing was only the initial testing and the succeeding tests will cover all 12,000 employees of the city government.
Duterte-Carpio admitted yesterday that she asked Aportadera to hold the random testing as she had observed that the successive testing may give avenue for those who are users to prepare