Finance chief orders axing of erring executives

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd has ordered that penalties ranging from dismissal from the service to suspension without pay be imposed on four municipal treasurers and a Bureau of Customs (BOC) agent in connection with separate cases filed against them before the Office of the Ombudsman.

Dominguez directed the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) to dismiss from the service municipal treasurer Angelita Roble of Tudela, Cebu and to suspend for one year without pay Local Treasury Operations Officer IV Marilou Rivera, who is officer-in-charge of the Office of the Provincial Treasurer in Misamis Oriental.