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Abuse of government power will end.
By: Central Luzon News Center | Nelson Bolos
This was how a highly placed source described the controversy on Schools Division Superintendent (SDS) Estrelita Cunanan who is being sought to be replaced by many principals and district supervisors and the mayors of the province.
“She’s (Cunanan) on the way out”, said a high ranking official of the provincial government who requested that his name be withheld.
The complaint against Cunanan “exploded into the open” when the Municipal Mayors’ League (LMMP) of the province signed a resolution seeking the transfer of the provincial head of the Department of Agriculture.
In an earlier interview, Moncada Mayor Estelita Aquino said, “we only acted on the complaints brought to us by the (DepEd) supervisors and principals. Most of them have issues against her (Cunanan), they do not want her that’s why issued the resolution”.
The LMMP resolution was addressed to DepEd secretary Leonora Briones and was also submitted to governor Susan Yap-Sulit and congressmen Charlie Cojuangco, Victor Yap and Noel Villanueva of the third district.
The resolution states 14 alleged issues of “misconduct and malpractice” of Cunanan including “spending of public funds for leisure, midnight appointment and promotion of non-deserving employee(s), utter bias or favoritism on the ranking system, budget plan for different districts not followed but implemented as the superintendent so desires, assigning wrong persons to task, head teachers promoted to principal 1 and 2 even not qualified, manipulation of (ranking) results, supervisors not allowed to visits schools without travel orders ”, among others.
A district supervisor who also requested to be anonymous said “si SDS kung magpamiting lagi sa Gracia Restaurant sa Lubao, Pampanga, or sa Anne Raquels’ Resort in Olongapo City. Hindi pa nagpamiting dito sa Tarlac, magkano kaya ang porsiyento niya sa 2 restaurant na ‘yun na ang layo-layo sa Tarlac?”.
“Hinihintay na lamang namin ang mga pangalan ng mga posibleng papalit sa kanya tapos pag-aaralan namin ng husto ang mga tao. Mahirap ng maulit ang ganyan (controversial SDS)”, said the source.
Cunanan is also being charged of “stunting growth and development of the schools in the province”.
The same district supervisor who fears reprisal said, “we are not allowed to go visit the schools within our district without her knowledge, we have to secure travel order from her before we can go out. She (Cunanan) does not welcome suggestions to improve our services. She insults us, she shouts at us. We are completely demoralized”.
Meanwhile, Aquino flatly denied a netizen’s comment in an online news that “marami ng mayors ang nag-apologize kay SDS (on their signing the LMMP resolution”.
Aquino said, “I don’t think so”, intoning that none among the mayor-signatories have settled their differences with Cunanan.
In a related developments, Barangay Chairman Manuel Arciaga of Barangay Pinasling, Gerona, said during a recent meeting with governor Susan Yap, ““kung ako ay may anak na 17 at lahat sila ay nirereklamo at pinaalis ang katulong na kinuha ko, wala akong magagawa kundi sundin ang gusto ng aking mga anak. . Kung ako ang governor susundin ko ang gusto ng aking mga mayors”.
Arciaga is a retired teacher who thought at several public schools for 27 years.
Yap declined to comment on the issue while Cunanan refused to be interviewed.
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