Pampanga provincial engineer dismissed

SAN FERNANDO, Pam­panga – The provincial engineer was dismissed last Monday as recommended by an investigative panel, which found him guilty of serious dishonesty and falsification of an official document.

Engineer Juanito Macatuno was earlier placed under 60-day preventive suspension pending an inquiry into allegations that he falsely declared in his personal data sheet that he was a civil engineering graduate and a licensed civil engineer.

The panel found out that Macatuno was not a civil engineering graduate of the Manuel L. Quezon University in Manila in 1978, based on records and other documents submitted by the school.

Last Tuesday, Macatuno appealed his dismissal, saying it violated not only civil service rules and established legal principles but also the Revised Penal Code.               – Ric Sapnu