Soc orders probe of bugno between 2 female personnel

Talisay City Mayor Socrates Fernandez yesterday ordered an investigation over a "bugno" (scuffle) incident between two female employees just in front of the City Hall Thursday noon.

The mayor directed city legal officer Aurora Econg to lead an investigation committee, composed of human resource management officer Emily Cabrera and city treasurer Emma Macuto.

Econg immediately met with her panel members and they agreed to summon and meet by Monday the two protagonists: Teresa Cugol and Janet Geralde.

The panel said that they already sent memorandum requiring Cugol and Geralde to explain their behavior that day.

This early, a City Hall employee, who requested anonymity, said Cugol and Geralde have been at odds for sometime already until they crossed paths at an eatery fronting the City Hall.

The two initially got into a verbal tussle, which rose into a hair-grabbing and rough-and-tumble situation. Their clothes got severely torn when other employees came to separate them.

People at the City Hall said the two women have been working in the same department but have been nurturing animosity against each other for personal reasons, which their peers were not able to determine yet.

Mayor Fernandez reportedly was saddened with the "unbecoming behavior" of the two female government employees, who made the matter worse by using the City Hall grounds as their arena of conflict. - Liv G. Campo