In a telephone interview, Dr. Orlando Molina, CCU president, told The STAR that a certain Raffy Ocsales, who claimed to be Echiverri’s representative, barged inside the registrar’s office at around 2 p.m. and announced that he was ordered by the mayor to close the school and ordered him and his staff to vacate the school premises.
"When I refused to move out of my office, some 30 personnel from the Department of Public Safety and Traffic Management (DPSTM) office arrived," Molina said, prompting him to call for assistance from the media.
Echiverri, on the other hand, clarified that it was not he who ordered the CCU closed but the city council in concurrence with the university’s Board of Regents.
"I did not order the CCU closure," he told The STAR.
"It was the city engineering office who made the request to temporarily cancel summer classes for the university would undergo renovation," Echiverri said. He added that the renovation would be finished in a month’s time.
With the temporary closure of CCU, at least 200 enrollees taking summer classes including cross enrollees from other schools will be affected.