MIWD tension over?

MIWD tension over?

"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two."
BUDDHA

By Alex P. Vidal

Will peace and tranquility among Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) officials finally reign now that hitherto general manager Le Jayme Jalbuena has been given the door? 
Because of the manner he was ousted, Jalbuena might not yet about to raise the white flag.
Jalbuena will reportedly challenge the decision of the board of directors which passed a resolution last month to dismiss him for lack of confidence.
If he won't resist and decides to relinquish his controversial portfolio peacefully and recognizes the authority and power of the board, tension and internal wrangling is expected to simmer down in the water district office on Bonifacio Drive, City Proper district.

LOGGERHEADS

Jalbuena has been at loggerheads with the board since 2010 when he defied a suspension order and for issuing a memorandum circular urging employees to disobey the board also in that year.
And as confirmed by Atty. Hans Sayno, MIWD corporate secretary, in an interview with The Daily Guardian on Air over Aksyon Radyo last Saturday, Jalbuena refused to sign the board resolution Sayno presented him Friday last week.
The dismissal came even before he could complete the 90-day suspension order handed by the MIWD board headed by Dr. Danilo Encarnacion in January.

DOUBLE

"The general-manager already smelled the double whammy when the board resumed office last January 6," observed a female lawyer who refused to be named. "Mr. Jalbuena was already consulting his legal advisers."
According to a report by Iloilo Press Club president and The Guardian editor Francis Allan Angelo yesterday, Sayno named the MIWD directors who voted to sack Jalbuena as: Dr. Encarnacion, Dr Sergio Gonzales, Engr. Adrian Moncada and Bernadette Castellano. Atty. Josephine Beata Abad-Caram reportedly abstained because she was not yet a member of the board when the furor about Jalbuena’s case erupted.
The board immediately installed Josephine Amaryllis Castro, finance and administrative departments chief, as officer-in-charge. She will help the MIWD Human Resource Office facilitate the process for the search for a new general manager.