LTFRB Regional Director Ahmed Cuizon is a career service eligible official and is exempted from appointed officials ordered by the President to vacate their posts. (CDN FILE)
Five presidential appointees of the previous administration in Central Visayas, including the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB-7) Director Ahmed Cuizon were exempted from the recent order of President Rodrigo Duterte firing the appointees from their posts.
This developed after Director Maria Antonette C. Velasco-Allones of the Career Executive Service Board (CESB), announced the list of 294 third-level eligibles occupying career executive service positions, who were due to complete their rank appointment process this year.
“Binigyan ng pahalaga ng tanggapan na maprosesso ang kanilang (rank appointment) at sa dami ng kanilang napagdaanan,” Allones told Cebu Daily News in a phone interview yesterday.
She said this means that these people could continue serving at their posts in different government agencies, but they would need to process their rank appointments.
Cuizon and the four other presidential appointees are included in this list, making them career executive service eligibles.
The other four appointees exempted from Duterte’s order were Dr. Rhea Mar Angtud, Cebu Province School Division superintendent; Dr. Joseph Irwin Lagura, Toledo City Division superintendent; Director Homer Cabaral of the National Police Commission in Central Visayas (Napolcom-7); and Assistant Director Juby Cordon of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH-7).
Allones said that these CES eligibles could process their rank appointments within a month.
According to the CESB, there are four stages for the career executive service eligibility examination process which are namely CES written examination, assessment center, performance validation and board interview.
“Upon inclusion of the candidate’s name in the roster of CES eligibles after the conferment of CES eligibility and in compliance with the other requirements prescribed by the Board, a CES eligible appointed to any CES position and appointed by the President to a CES rank upon the recommendation of the Board becomes a member of the CES,” the CESB stated in its website.
CESO I is the highest rank with an equivalent salary grade of 30 while CESO VI is the lowest rank with an equivalent salary grade of 25.
Duterte announced last week that all presidential appointees would vacate their post.
CESB then issued a circular or guidelines of the courtesy resignation of presidential appointees.
The president’s order exempts those career officials.
Meanwhile, Cebu Ports Authority General Manager Edmund Tan told Cebu Daily News that he already submitted his courtesy resignation last August 24.
Tan retired from the Philippine Coast Guard in 2012. He was assigned as an official in Coast Guard Cebu Station in 1990 and 2008.
Tan was appointed by then president Benigno Aquino III to replace former CPA general manager Dennis Villamor in October 2013.
“We are still with CPA and will wait for final directive from the Central Office. We will still be at the CPA in order not to hamper the operations and wait for whoever will replace the post,” Tan said.