By FRANK DOSDOS JR.
Correspondent
ILIGAN City–The Court of Appeals has denied the petition of former vice mayor Ruderic Marzo for it to lift its 60-day temporary restraining order (TRO) against the ombudsman’s ruling to dismiss and disqualify from public office Mayor Celso Regencia.
The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered Regencia’s dismissal from the service and perpetual disqualification from holding public office because he performed local executive functions while he was under detention due to a multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder case.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) subsequently trashed the murder and frustrated murder case against Regencia.
In a four-page resolution on June 9, 2017, the 22nd Division of the CA also denied the petition for the issuance of prohibition filed by Regencia.
The resolution was signed by CA Associate Justices Ruben Reynaldo Roxas, Edgardo Camello, and Luis Acosta.
The CA said the ombudsman and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) were ordered to submit their comments on Regencia’s petition for certiorari and prohibition.
It said Regencia’s petition for prohibition/judgment would be “inappropriate and offensive to due process to issue a decision on petitioner’s petition for certiorari with prohibition without the Ombudsman and the DILG’s comment.”
It added: “Aside from violating due process, the Court without hearing the side of Ombudsman and the DILG cannot make a sound and fair resolution of the case.”
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