Masbate City Mayor to Crack Down on Inept, Corrupt Personnel

MASBATE CITY, Jan. 28 2011-—Improving the quality of City Hall personnel is a top priority of Mayor Socrates Tuason in 2011 and this entails firing the inept and crooks.

Tuason enjoins the employees of perhaps the second largest local bureaucracy to kick bad practices as the city government pursues transformation similar to what Iloilo and Naga cities had started on the way to their present stature as models of good governance.

At yesterday’s flag raising rites, Tuason said he would make some changes in the City Hall to deliver better services to the public.

Tuason said he would turn the city government into a more efficient service organization by cracking the whip on remiss and corrupt personnel.

Those who had poor understanding of what it means to serve the public should shape up, he added.

Tuason later called his department heads to a conference where he reportedly took to task officials at the accounting office for allowing an in-house retail business there.

Critics within the City Hall described the accounting office as the “usual bottleneck” of transactions after the retail of goods was introduced there.

Sought for comment on who or what triggered the mayor’s crackdown on red tape and corruption in some offices, insiders and observers were one in theorizing that it was the dismal scorecards of the rogues in the City Hall.

The flunks reportedly surfaced when the Institute for Solidarity in Asia conducted the city’s 2010 performance evaluation. A source said those hooked in grease and carrots were the most conspicuous in ISA’s purported roster of flunks. (PIA Masbate)