The umbrella organization of government workers nationwide called for the preventive suspension of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Administrator Gerardo Esquivel pending the outcome of the investigation of the graft charges filed against him before the Office of the Ombudsman.

Ferdinand Gaite, national president of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage), said the hiring of 40 consultants by Esquivel and the MWSS board of trustees chaired by Ramon Alikpala Jr. was not in step with the Aquino administration’s tuwid na daan (straight path) policy.

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