Bataan mayor seeks TRO, group barricades town hall

Supporters of Mayor Antonio Raymundo of this town continued to barricade Thursday while waiting for the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) on the motion for a restraining order (TRO) and injunction in connection with his suspension by the Ombudsman.

The mayor’s supporters have camped out at the plaza fronting the town hall since Friday Enriquez, said they do know until when they will hold a vigil in the area.

Raymundo said he will exhaust all legal remedies available to him such as the motion

But he assured that the municipal govern - tions. “Employees are performing business transactions smoothly,” said Raymundo, who

Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales on September 2017 signed the suspension order for nine months of the Orion mayor based on a complaint filed by municipal budget officer Carmelita Waje who was dismissed from the service.

from her post over a case of alleged malversation.

for “conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service, grave abuse of authority and grave misconduct and gross neglect of duty.”

The Ombudsman found Raymundo guilty of oppression and slapped him with a nine-month suspension but dismissed the other cases.

the Interior and Local Government tried to serve the Ombudsman’s suspension order last Friday at the Orion town hall.

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